Renewable energy companies are eyeing opportunities in traditional coal-mining towns as part of Australia's electricity transition.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
A worker has been killed at an under-construction ammonia plant in the US state of Texas just days after Woodside Energy closed the books on a $3.6 billion deal to buy the facility.
Daniel Newell
Australian university researchers have won a patent for using food acids to create a major component of battery technology.
Regional energy supplier Horizon Power is in hot water after auditors found the Government-owned utility did not comply with rules designed to protect competition.
Matt Mckenzie
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hopes of kick-starting a hydrogen energy revolution have suffered another setback after Origin Energy revealed it had pulled the plug on a project in NSW.
Solar hopeful Frontier Energy has ditched a $23 million capital raising that was set to go before shareholders next week for approval.
Chinese investment in Australia has fallen, despite the nation's growing budget for renewable energy projects in the transition to net zero emissions by 2050.
Former WA premier Mark McGowan is yet to take the reins as chair of solar hopeful Frontier Energy, four weeks after the company confirmed to The West that he had started.
WA’s gas supply is just a few years behind the crisis facing Australia’s east coast market, a top energy analyst has warned.
Shares in Mark McGowan’s Frontier Energy have dived 43 per cent after the company’s solar project missed out on crucial backing from the market operator.
Woodside Energy’s $US2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) deal to buy a lower-carbon ammonia plant in Texas has reached the finish line.
Climate scientists and academics have called on UniSuper to uphold its climate commitments and denounce investment in the Beetaloo Basin.
(A)manda Parkinson
EnergyAustralia has been heavily fined for making false, misleading or deceptive statements that may have prevented consumers from getting the best deal.
Kat Wong
Macquarie Bank’s repeated failures to spot suspicious activity on the electricity futures market has cost it almost $5 million and a stinging reprimand from the corporate regulator.
Businessman Dick Smith labelled Australia as ‘dumb’ for not following China’s lead as it ramps up its nuclear infrastructure.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
California has filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil alleging it falsely promoted the recyclability of plastic.
Valerie Volcovici
WA’s main electricity agency disconnected a home from power every half an hour in the last financial year, growing by more than 40 per cent as cost-of-living pressures mount for households.
Dylan Caporn
Australia has yet again reassured Japan at the highest levels that it will continue supplying the Asian nation with gas and help it transition to cleaner energy.
Katina Curtis
While Alinta increased support to customers nationwide, the number of WA households being assisted dropped nearly 21 per cent to about 3400.
Sean Smith
Wholesale electricity prices have more than doubled since 2021, adding to cost of living pressures and sparking calls for the transformation of WA’s south-west grid to be ‘urgently’ fast-tracked.
Jessica Page
A modest loosening of export rules for WA’s onshore gas producers likely won’t slow the closure of LNG trains in Karratha, an industry expert says.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Under the changes, new or expanding onshore projects will be required to reserve 80 per cent of gas produced for WA’s domestic market.
Putting solar panels on the roofs of businesses, new homes and social housing could double Australia's renewable power, a study has found.
A Chinese company wants to build a $400 million battery near Kemerton, joining a long list of projects proposed as the shutdown of Western Australia’s coal power stations looms.
