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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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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
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
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
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
- Opinion
- WA budget
$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
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
- Updated
- Federal
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
‘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