Future energy supply challenges could be on the horizon for NSW as one of the state's major coal-fired electricity producers prepares to wind down operations.
An investment boost in Australia's renewable energy sector has resulted from the federal government's net-zero plan, but rising power prices still loom.
Wholesale electricity costs are forecast to jump by less than half of earlier dire predictions after the federal government stepped in to cool the market.
Updated Treasury forecasts have prices in Queensland coming...
The federal government's plan to cap coal prices to help reduce energy bills and relieve the nation's energy crisis will be at the centre of a meeting between Australia's leaders.
Russia has scrapped a deadline to resume flows via a major gas supply route to Germany, deepening Europe's difficulties in securing winter fuel, after saying it had found faults in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline during maintenance.
Russia has halted gas supplies via Europe's key supply route, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in some of the region's richest countries.
Australia's National Electricity Market is one of the world's longest interconnected power systems - from Port Douglas in tropical far north Queensland to South Australia's Eyre Peninsula and the bottom tip of Tasmania.
Ten years ago, the ACT Government’s renewable energy contracts were “highly contentious”, Chief Minister Andrew Barr said, but a decade later, they have proved their worth, shielding the ACT from the electricity price hikes the rest of Australia is experiencing.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the energy regulator has allowed for more gas to be released to the south-eastern states, but the crisis is far from over.
Anthony Albanese says the government will look at every available option to keep a lid on rising gas prices, but a failure of energy policy and global pressures are making the task harder.
