Energy Industry

Falling battery costs and a data centre-fuelled dash for gas have overturned decades of accepted wisdom: gas is no longer the cheapest way to meet peak power demand.

A single mother of six young children is paying off a $6,000 power bill after the Northern Territory's main energy retailer failed to send her a bill for almost 12 months. She's among thousands of Jacana Energy customers facing significant bills.

South Australia is at the bleeding edge of the energy transition but record low winds have pushed its grid to the brink of its limits. 

Home batteries hit 600,000 as households play big role in energy transition, but building transmission projects remains "critical", according to the latest AEMO energy plan.

Treasurer David Janetzki says Origin "appears not to be doing the right thing" by increasing prices in regions where price drops were predicted. 

The Northern Territory's main energy retailer, Jacana, reveals about 5,000 customers — thousands more than previously thought — have been caught up in a smart meter bungle leading to long delays in their billing.

Millions of Australians have been often unwittingly moved to complex and variable power tariffs. An energy watchdog says bills must be simplified.

Transgrid wants to claw back huge cost increases for a major transmission line from consumers. Experts say the regulator's decision will have far-reaching consequences. 

Half a tonne of explosives was needed to bring the Hunter Valley's Liddell Power Station chimneys crashing down.

Used tyres and wood waste will soon help to power a large cement manufacturing site in Tasmania as Cement Australia moves away from coal to alternative fuels, but some remain concerned the environmental benefit may be offset if the wood waste is sourced from logged native forests.

The NT government is arguing its planned mega Middle Arm gas industry precinct will be needed to help shore up Australia's future fuel and energy supplies — but it has just identified that a tiny endangered herb could be growing in the way.

An international energy company is building Australia's largest off-grid renewable hybrid power facility, as a state politician criticises the need for it.

Western Australia in particular is proving to the world that grid-scale batteries are no longer a complementary technology but can play a central role in power grids.

A new report concludes the AI-fuelled surge of power-hungry data centres across Australia is jeopardising the country's energy transition.

The demolition of the Liddell Power Station, which powered homes and businesses in NSW for more than 50 years, is underway.

Surging levels of renewable energy and better reliability from coal-fired generators are set to give consumers a break, with benchmark power prices to fall up to 10 per cent for consumers and more for small businesses.

After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to power outages, Yorke Peninsula businesses say SA Power Networks' $10 million action plan should have come a long time ago.

As the federal government races towards its 2030 renewable energy goal, investors warn capital gains taxes changes risk upending the entire effort.

SA Power Networks is investing about $10 million to combat insulator pollution, which has been linked to repeated power outages across regional South Australia over summer.

Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.