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The 900-kilometre Project EnergyConnect is of the biggest initiatives to upgrade the nation’s outdated power grid, but faced major cost blowouts.

Australia needs more renewables. This 900-kilometre cable will help

A new high-voltage “superhighway” with a $4.1 billion price tag will soon make it easier to add wind and solar farms to the network.

  • Nick Toscano

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Neoen owns the Victorian Big Battery outside Geelong in Victoria.

Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock

The rollout of renewables and batteries is buffering Australian electricity bills from the Iran war energy crisis.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the 32 cents-a-litre fuel excise and GST cuts to fuel would end by July.

Petrol could top $2 a litre after June as excise winds up

The Albanese government has confirmed it is removing a major saving for motorists in coming weeks.

  • Mike Foley
China’s Ministry of Commerce says without China’s imports of wind towers, Australia would be about 270 short each year of what it needs.

Power bills set to fall despite Iran uncertainty

After years of price rises, power bills are set to fall for millions of households. This is why.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley

Lower electricity bills on the way for half a million households

Victoria’s Essential Services Commission says lower network costs in the next financial year will mean savings for households and small businesses.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
WA Greens Parliamentary Leader Brad Pettit.

A big box of Band-Aids: Advocacy groups weigh in on WA budget

See what WA advocacy groups and stakeholders think about the 2026-27 state budget.

  • Indigo Lemay-Conway
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Treasurer Rita Saffioti.

$100 will barely fill my tank, but I’ll take free money when its on offer

The headline of today’s budget was a novel $100 “fuel support payment” that will only just be enough to fill my the tank of my Ford Focus once with maybe enough left over to get a cheese and bacon traveller pie with sauce. 

  • Hamish Hastie
Batteries are exceeding expectations and transforming the electricity grid.

Australia’s battery boom has doubled in a year – and is rewiring the energy grid

Once described as the missing link for renewable energy, batteries are transforming the electricity market and absorbing the worst of the global oil shock.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Solar and battery systems can slash energy bills for consumer

Backlash against scheme to raise grid costs for solar, battery owners

Energy giant AGL is raising alarm over a proposed overhaul of the way customers are billed for the upkeep of the electricity grid.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Shoppers share their perspective on supermarkets’ discounting practices.

‘Pretty rude’: What shoppers thought as Woolies defended discounts in court

The supermarket chain argues that its suppliers were demanding it raise prices as inflation spiked, and it then offered shoppers genuine specials.

  • Elias Visontay and Jessica Yun