Renewable Energy

The Hunter Transmission Project will see more than 100 kilometres of large transmission lines built from the NSW Upper Hunter to Lake Macquarie, with the route amended to minimise impacts to private landholders and an endangered frog.

Australia's biggest gold miner is being asked to carry a bigger load to resolve decades of power capacity and reliability woes on what WA Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has described as the "largest and most isolated grid in the world". 

As two energy ministers oppose the prime minister's plan for national AI rules for data centres, the question over how to power the facilities intensifies. 

One of the world's largest heavy-lift ships has made anchor in Hobart's River Derwent, as it awaits its role in "one of the most complex maritime events" in Tasmania's history.

Consumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built, experts say.

The state government has confirmed it is investigating building and running a new gas-fired power plant in the south of Perth as it prepares to switch off coal by 2030. 

Australian super funds manage $4.5 trillion in retirement savings, but directing some of that war chest towards the clean energy transition could be more difficult than it seems. 

While the worker accommodation would be a $68 million investment in Kingaroy, residents are voicing their opposition to the temporary project.

A brewery is using a bitcoin mine to heat the water used in beer production as a way to use up surplus energy generated by rooftop solar panels.

A lack of strong wind along and fierce community opposition have forced Alinta Energy to scale back the size of its proposed Whitsundays wind farm.

The timber manufacturing hub would transform blue gum wood chips into timber beams for construction.

Despite repeated setbacks and isolation, India continues to hold onto its nuclear dream.

Federal subsidies have ignited huge demand for batteries, but a tightening of the rules has experts warning of "boom and bust" cycles for the industry. 

The Victorian government unveils a plan to build a compressed CO2 battery storage system in the heart of the state's coal country.

A year after a devastating technical disqualification snatched victory from five South Australian teens at a hydrogen-powered engineering race, they returned as wildcard entrants to the 2026 H2 Grand Prix Finals in Switzerland. 

Farmers in WA's south say the standalone power systems they got from Western Power after being moved off the grid have been problematic.

ZEN Energy was once an emerging player in the nation's renewables transition but has now entered voluntary administration, saying its viability had been impacted by "wholesale electricity volatility".

One of three AI factories planned for northern Tasmania would be quieter than a library to the nearest resident, Firmus co-CEO Oliver Curtis says, as the company moves to assuage community concerns around power use, water and noise.

BHP and Rio Tinto have put their two battery-electric trucks on show, but is an aversion to risk stifling meaningful change?

A $6 billion dollar project to rehabilitate a gold mine and turn it into a pumped hydro power station has been dumped by the Queensland government.