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.
The NSW government exempted the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme from a long-standing ban on above ground transmission lines. Now a legal bid to overturn that decision has failed.
Supplying the demand for power in homes can be a high-intensity balancing act. Why aren’t renewables making our bills cheaper? What’s behind the cost of our power?
AGL and Alcoa have struck a nine-year deal to provide power to an energy-intensive aluminium plant in Portland.
The power giant has swung to a heavy loss after a chaotic 12 months for the east-coast energy market,but flags better times ahead as electricity prices rise.
WA households will get a credit on their power bill as the state-owned power generator makes amends for breaking power market rules seven years ago.
Power supply in the south west of WA has had a troubled week as the sun refuses to shine and wind farms languish on the drawing board.
Vast wind and solar farms connected to an expanded south-west power grid could usher in a WA mining economy based on the green electron after 40 years of gas-powered growth.
A major Japanese investor in Australia’s mining sector has urged NSW to scrap a plan to force coal exporters to reserve up to 10 per cent of their output for local power stations.
WAtoday reported exclusively that a major power station would be shut until January,but can now reveal the problem will last longer into summer.
Last year COVID-19 restrictions coupled with a record heatwave caused huge surges in power use that Western Power’s network could not handle.