Energy Markets

Environmental timelines outlined by Star of the South show the offshore wind farm project could take up to an additional five years to be completed, leaving some in the energy sector wondering whether Victoria could suffer an energy shortfall.

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. 

ATCO Australia tells 8,000 customers they will need to find new energy sources or switch to bottled gas as it prepares to decommission its Great Southern gas network in WA.

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. 

A hot summer saw Australians use record amounts of electricity, but the growing share of renewable energy continued to push fossil fuels out of the grid, driving gas generation to its lowest level in 25 years.

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"?

Oil prices plunged more than 10 per cent after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz would be "completely open" but shipping giants are approaching the situation with caution.

The long-term outlook for Australia's liquefied natural gas exports is structurally constrained by declining demand, and the current war in the Middle East may hasten that shift away from gas, a new report claims.

Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman admits his country was surprised by the scope of Iran's response to the Middle East war and that it did not expect Gulf states to be targeted in retaliation strikes.

With the world watching the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, one country has quietly benefited from the mayhem: Russia.

Israel’s attack on Lebanon is destabilising the two-week truce between Iran and the US leaving Australia to negotiate deals to secure fuel supplies. 

The standstill in the Strait of Hormuz is not just impacting our supply of fuel - it has also disrupted the production of petrochemicals used to make everyday items. 

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has remained at an effective standstill in the 24 hours since Iran conditionally lifted its blockade on the critical shipping lane, amid a fragile ceasefire with the US and Israel.

Countries heavily reliant on imported oil, like the Philippines in Southeast Asia, are most vulnerable to the unfolding energy crisis caused by the US-Israel war with Iran.

Developing Victoria's wind power sector could save the state money and powerline infrastructure, while providing stability for Eastern Australia's power grid, a new report shows. 

The markets' benign assessment of the Iran war is wrong and the damage to the global economy could get worse.

Global markets reel as conflict rages in the Middle East, yet China's strategic foresight could turn a crisis into an advantage.

Benchmark power prices across parts of the country will ease as renewables reduce wholesale costs for electricity, but the regulator warns its modelling does not account for the war in the Middle East.

Experts say we should prepare for the possibility the war in the Middle East will force Australia to start rationing fuel.  

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates by 0.25 percentage points as the war in the Middle East sends oil, gas, and petrol prices soaring.