Energy Industry

A new report concludes the AI-fuelled surge of power-hungry data centres across Australia is jeopardising the country's energy transition.

The demolition of the Liddell Power Station, which powered homes and businesses in NSW for more than 50 years, is underway.

Surging levels of renewable energy and better reliability from coal-fired generators are set to give consumers a break, with benchmark power prices to fall up to 10 per cent for consumers and more for small businesses.

After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to power outages, Yorke Peninsula businesses say SA Power Networks' $10 million action plan should have come a long time ago.

As the federal government races towards its 2030 renewable energy goal, investors warn capital gains taxes changes risk upending the entire effort.

SA Power Networks is investing about $10 million to combat insulator pollution, which has been linked to repeated power outages across regional South Australia over summer.

Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.

A parliamentary hearing into a proposed $600 million waste-to-energy plant at Tarago has heard widespread opposition and condemnation from the community.

A controversial plan to end a ban on fracking in South Australia's South East two years earlier than planned, appears to be all but dead, with the Liberals and One Nation vowing to oppose legislation.

Energy Australia says the proposed 1.4-gigawatt gas-fired power plant would be critical to the energy transition by supplying reliable back-up power, but analysts have flagged supply and economic issues.

The South Australian government is planning to lift a ban on fracking in the state's South East amid reports of increasing risks to gas supply in southern parts of the nation.

Amid renewed debate over whether Australia is getting enough tax from its gas exports, an investigation by the ABC shows how resource giants use shell companies to shift profit. 

The gas field off the south-west coast of Victoria could provide up to 4 per cent of the east coast's energy supplies.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart Takaichi Sanae agreed to bolster cooperation on energy, defence and critical minerals, while warning against economic coercion.

Councillors in a Victorian shire battling coastal erosion say fossil fuel giants should help pay for damage caused by climate-related environmental disasters. 

In less than nine months, more than a quarter of a million batteries were installed in Australian households. Here's how the battery rebate is changing and why. 

Gas giants are breathing a sigh of relief after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ruled out a 25 per cent tax on exports in next month's budget. But for how long will the federal government resist something that one leading expert says is in our "national interest"?

Natural gas taxes are back in the fray after an environment plan for the operation of part of Australia's largest gas project received approval, ahead of Senate inquiry hearings this week which will probe how the resource is taxed.

A former refinery safety manager says preventing fires is hardwired into refining plants.

A school in the middle of a $22-million master plan for its growing enrolment numbers is worried the buildings will not be needed if a waste to energy plant is approved in the town.