The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

From how much households could be paying to what prompted the rethink

Sri Lankan health, railway, port and other state workers are on a daylong strike to protest against sharp increases in income taxes and electricity charges, as the island nation awaits approval of an International Monetary Fund package to aid its bankrupt economy

The Queensland government has promised to give households and small businesses in the state's southeast bigger electricity bill rebates in 2023/24.

Labor backs the Coalition’s energy roadmap but accelerated coal plant closures and renewable project delays are raising concerns

The Victorian government has suggested the Commonwealth could be a co-investor behind the revival of the State Electricity Commission.

Victoria's Essential Services Commission has proposed annual power bill increases of $426 a year for residential electricity customers on default offers.

Australian households face steep electricity price hikes within months, power costs jump as much as 30 per cent in some states.

The Australian Energy Regulator releases its draft electricity price increase for the coming financial year, but says its default market offer would have been higher without government intervention.

Lebanon has to audit its state electricity company among other reforms the World Bank has required before it will consider funding Lebanon's worn-down electricity sector, the bank's regional vice president Ferid Belhaj said on Tuesday. Public provision of electricity in Lebanon has been poor since the country's 1975-90 civil war…

A month ago South Africans heard some hard truths about the state of the power utility, Eskom, from the outgoing CEO André de Ruyter. In an interview broadcast on television, De Ruyter made accusations about the role of criminal gangs as well as politicians in corruption that’s crippled the utility.…

The European Union is working on a thorough reform of its electricity market to shield citizens from sudden price spikes, speed up the use of renewable energy sources and make the bloc more independent in an increasingly unstable world