Energy

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is handing out red and green lights like candy, first blocking a gold mine and now approving a solar farm backed by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.

The Australian Conservation Foundation has apologised to its supporters after scrapping a Federal Court challenge to Woodside Energy’s $16 billion Scarborough gas project off Australia’s north-west.

Higher power prices have generated full-year profit growth and more cash for replacement energy assets for Australia's biggest electricity generator AGL Energy.

Woodside Energy has revealed a sharp rise in the cost of its long-awaited Scarborough gas project off the Pilbara coast.

Woodside Energy has revealed a $US900 million ($1.3bn) bid to have a fresh crack at North American LNG, with chief executive Meg O’Neill declaring the company needs to focus on the projects it can control.

Both Labor and Coalition heavyweights have reignited the climate debate amid raging rhetoric on renewables and nuclear energy.

Santos has secured a big win in its hunt to lift the lid on some of the Environmental Defenders Office’s mysterious backers that caused the development of its $6.7 billion Barossa gas project to be delayed.

An Australian company that was going to generate electricity by harnessing the power of giant waves is back with a new name and an unlikely corporate backer in its corner.

While Australia grapples with the debate over nuclear energy, the US has taken rare bipartisan action to liberate the nuclear industry from its decades-long malaise.

The fact that Australia, one of the world’s top gas exporters, could face a potential gas shortage is a sign that something needs to change. As the saying goes, never waste a good crisis. 

ANDREW MILLER: To blindly accept that nuclear technology is now safe is to ignore the lessons of history.

Anthony Albanese has danced around questions on the cost of Labor’s renewables transition in a heated Question Time, as the Coalition sought to poke holes in the Government’s anti-nuclear stance. 

Solar cells will in all likelihood be the single biggest source of electrical power on the planet by the mid 2030s. By the 2040s they may be the largest source not just of electricity but of all energy.

East coast gas prices have rocketed after the energy market operator issued a rare notice warning of a looming shortage through winter.

Labor has known for months the Coalition was getting ready to launch a nuclear attack so there’s absolutely no excuse for Wednesday’s sneering reaction to Peter Dutton’s energy policy.