Australia’s world-leading rollout of big and small batteries is turbocharging the energy transition and pushing down power bills. Can it last? Australia’s pipeline of operational and ...

From July 1, many Australians can choose something that once sounded absurd: free electricity in the middle of the day. The federal government’s opt-in Solar Sharer Offer will give three hours of free ...

We cannot afford to make the same mistake as we did with gas. If tech companies are going to use our land, energy and water for AI, they must pay their fair share of tax Follow our Australia news live ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

Australia leads world in residential solar per capita with 22GW installed but commercial and industrial sector has deployed only a quarter of that Follow our Australia news live blog for latest ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Renewable energy and batteries are decoupling Australia’s power prices from volatile global markets, ...

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has left the door open to an audacious union proposal to create cheap subsidised power for Australia’s struggling manufacturing and metals smelting businesses by ...

Australia’s $135bn data centre industry posed a new danger to the nation’s electricity system, The Australian reported on Wednesday, with sudden dips in voltage potentially causing a mass grid-scale ...

The rush to install data centres to feed a boom in artificial intelligence has hiked security risks to the electricity grid, with the power-hungry facilities sending authorities scrambling to boost ...

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The Queensland Competition Authority's final determination has confirmed electricity costs will drop. Households will save up to 6.9 per cent while businesses will save 8.1 per cent. Households across ...

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