A family eats by candlelight during the blackout in Barcelona.

Did renewables cause 60 million people to lose power?

Power had not yet been restored to 60,000 million people in Spain and Portugal when a culture war over the cause of this week’s blackout began.

  • Nick O'Malley

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Tony Blair attends the COP29 climate confernce in Azerbaijan in November.

A political tide is turning across Europe,and at its centre is a hard truth

A plan to ban hybrid cars has been quietly delayed and a third runway at Heathrow is back on the table as easy green promises crumble under the weight of harsh reality.

  • Rob Harris
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has committed to build seven nuclear plants across the country if he wins the next election

Renewable energy investors demand answers on Coalition nuclear plan

Major renewable energy companies are pressing Peter Dutton to reveal how much extra wind and solar he would permit under his plan to adopt nuclear reactors.

  • Nick Toscano
The pristine beach at Waratah Bay. Offshore wind company Gippsland Skies had planned to explore a cable route at the beach.

Offshore issues could prove decisive in ocean-loving Victorian electorates

In the battle for votes on land,candidates in these two marginal electorates are looking to the ocean to win over voters.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Solar panels on roofs in the outer Melbourne suburb of Sunbury.

Everything you need to know about Labor’s home battery promise

One in three households have solar panels but only one in 40 have a home battery. That could be about to change.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Energy’s a big part of living costs,but fixing it won’t be cheap

Voters seem permanently obsessed with energy prices,and they’ve figured in most election campaigns for decades. But it’s mainly been smoke and mirrors.

  • Ross Gittins
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Anthony Albanese has pledged to cut the cost of home battery installations by up to 30 per cent if Labor is re-elected.

Battery ‘bill buster’ for millions of households,but renters and cash-strapped may miss out

The Albanese government has made an election pitch to slash power bills and accelerate the grid’s shift to cleaner sources of energy.

  • Nick Toscano
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Longreach,Queensland on Saturday.

Labor to subsidise home batteries up to $4000 for households

The prime minister is doubling down on his clean energy ambitions in response to criticisms of soaring power bills.

  • Mike Foley
Labor plans to roll out subsidies for household batteries very soon.

Labor takes power bill election fight in-house with help to buy home batteries

Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.

  • Paul Sakkal andDavid Crowe
The road into Little River.

Residents opposed this solar farm. Then the government changed the rules

A massive solar farm near Geelong will be fast-tracked after opponents,including Catriona Rowntree,waged a campaign against it

  • Bianca Hall