Ausgrid’s $180m plan to build community solar generation and battery projects across Sydney and the NSW Central Coast has been thrown into doubt after legal advice to the Australian Energy Regulator found the distributor cannot immediately recover the costs through customer bills.
An experienced pilot has warned the construction of giant wind turbines would make it ‘nearly impossible’ to fight bushfires in a NSW region of Yass, which has a “history of major fires”.
Precisely because it was such a powerful challenge to the two great political pieties of our time, there will be a sustained attempt to ridicule, ignore and bury Donald Trump’s seismic speech to the UN last week.
Regions hosting renewable-energy projects would receive – and control – pooled developer and government funds for local infrastructure and services, under a “radical” plan to secure a “social licence” for the rollout.
The national spotlight on Australia’s lagging productivity and slow and complex approvals processes has highlighted the challenges we face in transforming our energy system.
The government is peddling a false environmental apocalypse to justify up-ending people’s lives in ways they would never accept if they were told the truth, writes former PM Tony Abbott.
The Albanese government premiered the latest instalments in its climate multiverse this week, shows so formulaic you could predict the finale from the trailer.
Average electricity wholesale prices rose from less than $40 per MWh in 2009 (actually less than $30 in 2011) to their present $110.
Wind Prospect has indefinitely delayed its controversial 90-turbine farm near Yass following fierce opposition from local farmers and a Telegraph campaign.
The developer of a major proposed Victorian offshore wind farm has put the $8 billion project on ice as uncertainty over the economic and political viability of the industry forces key renewable energy investors to reconsider their near-term priorities.
