The Latest Breaking News from AEMO

The jolt in costs is being blamed mostly on more expensive fossil fuels and falling reliability of coal-fired power plants

The Morrison government has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for new gas projects, while Labor moves in lockstep with them on coal

A simplistic claim about power price hikes splashed across tabloid front pages on Tuesday could seed confusion and doubt

To address the loss of Eraring's capacity, the update calls for "additional investments in renewable energy and electricity storage".

NSW, Victoria and Queensland may face a reduction in reliability if new generation projects don’t progress on schedule, Aemo says

Australia's most populous states will face blackout risks from 2025 if new power capacity is not built in time to replace the country's biggest coal-fired plant, due to be shut that year, the energy market operator said on Thursday.

Reduced production in Bass Strait and pipeline capacity limits could lead to shortfall during extreme weather, energy market operator says

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flatly opposed the bid led by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy Australia’s biggest energy company AGL and spend A$20 billion switching it to renewables. This includes closing its coal power stations by 2030. As Morrison stated this week:

Origin Energy plans to shut Australia's largest coal-fired power plant seven years early, in 2025, with plans to replace it with a big battery on the same site.

Did you know your rooftop solar panels may be automatically switching off in the middle of the day? Here's what causes "curtailment" and how it can be avoided.

The two plants selected for early shutdown currently produce about 7% of Australia’s total carbon emissions