Power network
These residents can’t choose their power company. Even after reforms, they’re still stuck
New price caps will force energy retailers to slash electricity and gas bills for Victorians locked into embedded networks.
- Patrick Hatch
Latest
‘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
- Exclusive
- Crime
WA’s 1200-kilometre trail of stolen copper cable could stretch from Perth to Exmouth
Main Roads has revealed widespread outages are often linked to stolen copper cables. Here’s what it intends to do about it.
- Holly Thompson and Hamish Hastie
Snowy Hydro bracing for 10-fold cost blowout
The federal government remains committed to the renewable energy project, which is now two-thirds complete, more than 10 times over budget, and seven years behind schedule.
- Andrew Probyn
- Exclusive
- Electricity
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
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing
The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Would-be copper thief lucky to be alive after high-voltage fireball melts knife
A south-east Queensland man is in hospital after cutting into an 11,000-volt cable, sparking a fireball “hotter than the surface of the sun”.
- Laine Clark
- Opinion
- Renewables
You’re putting too much solar on your roof
Turn your home into a power station and you’re changing your role from that of customer to speculator in one of the most volatile, cut-throat commodity markets on the planet.
- David Fickling
- Updated
- Weather
Smoke blankets scorching city as thousands still without power after storm
It was still about 32 degrees and 19,042 were without power in Brisbane on Monday evening.
- William Davis and Julius Dennis
Ten Victorian towns to lose piped gas as operator says network is too expensive
Solstice Energy says it will switch off its gas pipelines in the affected towns by the end of next year.
- Kieran Rooney