Future Power
‘Potentially catastrophic’: Leaked videos reveal severity of Snowy project’s blunders
An out-of-control excavator and a dump truck hanging off a cliff reveal safety risks plaguing the mega-project, which faces further cost blowouts and years of delays.
- Matt O'Sullivan and Mike Foley
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Leaked videos reveal flooding in troubled Snowy 2.0 tunnel project
The videos starkly illustrate the enormous challenges the multibillion-dollar project is encountering beneath a national park, and away from the public’s eye.
- Matt O'Sullivan and Mike Foley
Big BESS: State’s largest power bank to be built in WA’s South West
A $400 million Battery Energy Storage System will use lithium-ion battery technology to support the WA power grid through wind and solar energy.
- Claire Ottaviano
‘You know my position’: The other question the LNP struggles with
David Crisafulli will not say whether – or how – he would thwart Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear reactors in Queensland.
- William Davis
Twice the grunt or half the weight – Australia’s plans to build a better battery
Double the energy for the same size is the goal for the next generation of rechargeable batteries. Batteries that Australia hopes to make at home.
- Mike Foley
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Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction
These mass outages would have been avoided, or their impact dramatically reduced with a shortened recovery period, if we’d had large-scale investment in transitioning the electricity grid to renewables.
- Tim Buckley
No more freezing kids in sleeping bags: How the Nunns escaped a house of misery
The Nunn family baked in summer and froze in winter in their Sydney cottage. Building an energy-efficient home changed everything, including their ability to repay their mortgage faster.
- Julie Power
Big sheds get electric boost as Goodman customers drive sustainability
Industrial property giant Goodman Group is future-proofing its sheds with reinforced roofs, solar panels, rain water harvesting, large electrical conduits, EV charge points, drone access and big batteries.
- Simon Johanson
Australia risks being ‘left behind’ as EU bans fossil fuel cars from 2035
Major carmakers say Australia will be left with the cars no one else will take if it doesn’t get behind EVs, after the EU’s decision to ban the sale of fossil fuel cars and vans within 12 years.
- Miki Perkins
Fracking, coal seam gas ‘not legal any time soon’, Andrews insists
The Victorian premier hit back at Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King’s suggestion that the state’s ban on fracking was a barrier to fixing the energy crisis.
- Josh Gordon