Some Victorian communities are regularly struck by short – and lengthy – power outages. How can they be protected from the dangers and inconvenience of electricity cuts?
Vulcan,which is backed by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting,plans to extract lithium from underground reservoirs of hot brine from Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley.
Japan’s biggest LNG importer is buying 15.1 per cent of Woodside’s giant Scarborough gas field off Western Australia.
A key figure in the inquiry into Victoria’s most deadly bushfires is dismayed by the limited progress to make the state safer.
The opposition leader is picking a fight with the government over energy policy,putting nuclear at the centre of the debate.
Many communities and individuals have opted to take matters into their own hands,investing in solar panels on rooftops,household batteries,and electric vehicles could be used to power the grid.
The Latrobe Valley’s Loy Yang A is Victoria’s largest coal-fired power plant. It’s also old and unreliable – leaving taxpayers exposed.
Gale force winds have yet again toppled transmission lines,raising questions about the ability of the electricity grid to cope with climate change.
A dairy farmer is dead,while Phillip Island and its surrounding communities remain without electricity after wild storms battered Victoria on Tuesday.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio described it as “one of the largest outage events in the state’s history” after a storms flattened transmission towers and knocked out the state’s largest power station.
A crowd gathered on the lawn of Parliament House on Tuesday this week to protest the government’s plan to implement “reckless renewables”.