Charged up:WA town to home Australia’s biggest battery

Charged up:WA town to home Australia’s biggest battery

The expansion will let the state’s biggest power grid store midday solar power for use in the evening,and will make it Australia’s largest energy storage site.

  • byPeter Milne

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Payments for coal plants and urgent reform needed for renewables switch

Payments for coal plants and urgent reform needed for renewables switch

Energy policy is a mess and governments will have little option but to prop up ageing coal plants until more clean energy comes online,the Grattan Institute warns.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions

Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions

Australia’s largest oil and gas company has been hit with an unprecedented investor uprising demanding greater action on climate change.

  • byNick Toscano andPeter Milne
Planning hurdles holding back the power grid’s race to renewables

Planning hurdles holding back the power grid’s race to renewables

Wind and solar farms are waiting up to two years for planning permission,as investors take aim at “pinch points” obstructing efforts to wean the grid off coal.

  • byNick Toscano
Why Joe Biden’s real enemy is the price of oil
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Why Joe Biden’s real enemy is the price of oil

Joe Biden’s battle for re-election as president of the United States now faces a surprise new threat – the surging price of petrol.

  • byJonathan Leake
Renewable energy is slashing emissions,now it’s cutting prices too

Renewable energy is slashing emissions,now it’s cutting prices too

Wholesale electricity prices are down as the share of renewable energy in the grid continues to grow.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
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The green energy ‘big bets’ Australia needs to go after:Sun Cable cofounder

The green energy ‘big bets’ Australia needs to go after:Sun Cable cofounder

Sun Cable’s cofounder wants Australia to think bigger about the green energy switch,saying the nation should strive to become a renewable energy superpower.

  • byNick Toscano
‘Light the way’:The SEC says it will be bold in getting more energy projects built

‘Light the way’:The SEC says it will be bold in getting more energy projects built

Victorian Labor’s big election promise has had a shaky start,but it now says it will start investing in projects the market is still unsure about.

  • byKieran Rooney
Top UK fund turns up heat on Goyder as Woodside faces climate revolt

Top UK fund turns up heat on Goyder as Woodside faces climate revolt

Britain’s biggest asset manager will vote to remove Richard Goyder as chair of Australian energy giant Woodside amid a backlash over the board’s climate stance.

  • byNick Toscano
Power giants fear green scheme will shut out crucial projects

Power giants fear green scheme will shut out crucial projects

Pumped hydro projects are at risk of missing out on contracts under the federal government’s green energy financing scheme,despite warnings they are critically needed.

  • byNick Toscano
Inside the backlash facing Australia’s biggest energy company

Inside the backlash facing Australia’s biggest energy company

Woodside shareholders are about to decide if the company is doing enough to diversify revenue away from fossil fuels as warnings intensify about emissions heating the planet.

  • byNick Toscano