Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction

Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction

These mass outages would have been avoided,or their impact dramatically reduced with a shortened recovery period,if we’d had large-scale investment in transitioning the electricity grid to renewables.

  • byTim Buckley

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No more freezing kids in sleeping bags:How the Nunns escaped a house of misery

No more freezing kids in sleeping bags:How the Nunns escaped a house of misery

The Nunn family baked in summer and froze in winter in their Sydney cottage. Building an energy-efficient home changed everything,including their ability to repay their mortgage faster.

  • byJulie Power
Big sheds get electric boost as Goodman customers drive sustainability

Big sheds get electric boost as Goodman customers drive sustainability

Industrial property giant Goodman Group is future-proofing its sheds with reinforced roofs,solar panels,rain water harvesting,large electrical conduits,EV charge points,drone access and big batteries.

  • bySimon Johanson
Australia risks being ‘left behind’ as EU bans fossil fuel cars from 2035

Australia risks being ‘left behind’ as EU bans fossil fuel cars from 2035

Major carmakers say Australia will be left with the cars no one else will take if it doesn’t get behind EVs,after the EU’s decision to ban the sale of fossil fuel cars and vans within 12 years.

  • byMiki Perkins
Fracking,coal seam gas ‘not legal any time soon’,Andrews insists

Fracking,coal seam gas ‘not legal any time soon’,Andrews insists

The Victorian premier hit back at Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King’s suggestion that the state’s ban on fracking was a barrier to fixing the energy crisis.

  • byJosh Gordon
Bass Strait gas output ramps up as demand and prices soar

Bass Strait gas output ramps up as demand and prices soar

A pipeline has been rerouted in the Bass Strait as ExxonMobil seeks to ramp up output to meet soaring demand.

  • byNick Toscano
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Herding cats with Anna Collyer to keep the nation’s lights on

Herding cats with Anna Collyer to keep the nation’s lights on

There are two organisations at the heart of the complex web of governments and public and private institutions that provide our power. Anna Collyer runs them both.

  • byNick O'Malley
From blazing Perth to the edge of the Arctic for green jobs

From blazing Perth to the edge of the Arctic for green jobs

An Australian couple has joined the “green rush” to a small town in Sweden which has become one of the first boomtowns of the EU’s green industrial revolution.

  • byRichard Orange
Is this the secret to saving humanity?
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Is this the secret to saving humanity?

The better question for our future selves might not be,what world do I want to leave behind,but what world am I proud to leave?

  • byDewi Cooke
‘The skyline changed’:End of an era for power station as new energy chapter begins

‘The skyline changed’:End of an era for power station as new energy chapter begins

The Wallerawang power plant’s two chimneys have towered over the town for decades,but on Wednesday they were demolished as the town looks to the future.

  • byLaura Chung
Hype or holy grail:What’s driving the hydrogen rush?
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Hype or holy grail:What’s driving the hydrogen rush?

What is green hydrogen? How could it help the environment? And what’s its future in Australia?

  • byNick Toscano