Energy policy

The agreement with Woodside and Esso will supply 260PJ worth of gas to the domestic energy market over a decade.

The federal Community Energy Upgrades Fund is open to local councils to make swimming pools, sports grounds and courts more energy efficient. 

We need to see in real-time who the energy market’s price-setting generator is so that policymakers can question it — and more importantly, its owner.

Future offshore exploration and mining won’t receive approval on the NSW coastline under a new landmark state government policy. 

Canberrans looking to buy electric vehicles are being offered interest-free loans by the ACT government as it works towards a 2045 net-zero target. 

The Queensland government is due to build and own a resource mineral processing plant in Townsville; the site will process vanadium.

A federal government $3 million feasibility study will determine if the Port of Newcastle could be the home of a new 40 MW hydrogen hub.

A new report outlines an emissions ceiling to curb sales of high-emitting petrol and diesel vehicles that taper off to zero by 2035. 

On November 4 Norway’s supreme court will highlight the issue that almost all of Norway’s electricity comes from hydropower but it is the seventh largest exporter of emissions in the world.

Intervention by different governments in Australia’s National Electricity Market is becoming common, but without a coherent, national approach we risk reduced reliability, higher prices and missed targets.