11+ hour, 23+ min ago   (668+ words) Energy Australia's Mt Piper power station, near Lithgow in NSW. (Source: Peter Hannam) Australia’s energy ministers have given themselves barely half a year to settle on the legislative changes that will establish the shape of the National Electricity Market beyond…...

15+ hour, 42+ min ago   (413+ words) Monday, September 14, 2026 Australian households could save $5000 a year by electrifying their homes and cars, but campaigners say governments must provide clear advice and targeted support to help more of them make the switch. More than 30 organisations will call for incentives…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (433+ words) Advocates for advancing consumer energy resources, such as rooftop solar, home batteries and electric vehicles, says they are concerned the Albanese government will reverse course on plans to assign technical regulations to the independent Clean Energy Regulator and instead grant…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (531+ words) The Victorian Labor government has cancelled the proposed Central-North renewable energy zone (REZ) on the grounds that the region already hosts “significant renewable energy” projects, on a grid with limited capacity for more. The Central-North REZ was the last undeclared…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1773+ words) “Things have changed in Queensland,” Clean Energy Council chief executive and former deputy premier (Labor) Jackie Trad noted at the start of the CEC’s Queensland Energy Summit on Wednesday. And so they have. For a start, Labor is no longer…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (791+ words) The majority of the Federal Greens partyroom has decided to fall into line with their NSW counterparts and allow a plan to use carbon credits to support the creation of the Great Koala National Park planned for northern NSW. The…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (324+ words) A massive blaze that gutted a 140 megawatt hydro-electric power station in Tasmania – one of the state’s biggest – and left hundreds of homes without power likely started on the building’s assembly bay floor. Tasmania’s Tungatinah Power Station, which supplies five per…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (182+ words) Renew Economy How retailers are standing in the way of cheaper power | SwitchedOn Australia Tim Ryan argues Australia is trying to build a 21st-century, consumer-led electricity system while preserving retailers as compulsory ‘middlemen.’ But retailers are businesses that have little…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (422+ words) Australian households plan to spend $85 billion on home energy upgrades over the next five years, a study has found, averaging more than $8,300 per home. But renters and younger Australians could miss out on the trend, with both groups budgeting significantly…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1396+ words) Road to an end of native forest logging but will the Greens take it? (Source: Peter Hannam) When Greens elder Bob Brown addressed a throng of forest campaigners at a Uniting Church in Sydney last Saturday, he did so beneath…...