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‘If you want to compete, and your economy ends up at risk, you’ve got to make difficult choices,’ said Brandon Craig who questioned whether Australia’s IR, tax and climate targets were at odds with its natural resource ambitions.

BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.

In the next four years Australian enterprises plan massive use of local artificial intelligence, which will require data centres that will explode the demand for electricity.

The safety of workers and the integrity of renewable energy projects across the state has been called into question last week, after a nationwide audit was launched following the discovery of asbestos in wind turbine components.

One Nation will push for the construction of a nuclear reactor in regional NSW, as Pauline Hanson courts Barnaby Joyce to join the party.

Recent articles by Simon Holmes a Court and Rod Sims fail to reveal the true costs of renewable power

A former Treasury official has raised doubts about the department’s modelling on net-zero targets which claim green exports would exceed fossil fuel exports within seven years, even under a disorderly transition to net zero.

The failure of Queensland Labor’s “world’s biggest pumped hydro” project is a case study in how the difficult realities of the energy transition are too easily ignored by politicians seeking electoral opportunity.

“Power bills are high but the rollout of renewables are not the cause.” Consider that sentence; a staggering understatement, followed by a brazenly false assertion.

AGL Energy has walked away from its Victorian offshore wind ambitions, toppling a third project in the Gippsland region and throwing into disarray the Allan government’s plan to trade coal for the clean energy source.

Labor’s treatment of rural Victorians has been shameful. But the country is fighting back and one particular standoff shows how fed up farming communities are with the state government.