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Electricity retailers raise fixed charges to recoup costs after record highs in spot market

Even energy-conscious consumers who have reduced their power usage are being slugged with higher bills thanks to rising fixed daily charges.

ABC News · Aug 14, 2022

‘Car park for clunkers’: Government urged to act on $5.9 billion petrol opportunity

The Albanese government is being urged to transform Australia from a “carpark for clunkers” into a destination for the latest electric vehicles.

The New Daily · Aug 8, 2022

Motorists could have saved $5.9bn on fuel if efficiency standards were introduced in 2015, The Australia Institute report finds

A report says Australian motorists could have saved $5.9 billion on fuel costs if efficiency standards were introduced in 2015. Let's have a look at what the paper says.

ABC News · Aug 8, 2022

We cannot fix the energy market until we know what we are building

The National Electricity Market was originally designed to make Australia’s energy system more resilient – and therefore cheaper – by connecting the

The New Daily · Jun 16, 2022

AGL, Australia's largest provider, reveals its coal-fired power generator outages will continue

There is no relief in sight from Australia's energy crisis with almost one-quarter of coal-fired capacity offline, and the nation's largest producer revealing several of its units will be out for some time.

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022

Island in the energy price storm: renewables help ACT cut power costs

ACT is the only jurisdiction bucking the trend of soaring power bills now plaguing the rest of Australia

The Guardian - AU · Jun 6, 2022

More than $1bn of Coalition’s climate funding could go to fossil fuel projects, analysis finds

‘Clean’ hydrogen and carbon capture and storage head list of funding pledges since net zero promise

The Guardian - AU · May 20, 2022

Australia Institute disputes Victorian coal-to-hydrogen emissions claims

A think tank says a project to make hydrogen from coal is unlikely to meet its carbon reduction claims. But the criticism has been dismissed by project bosses who say the researchers have their numbers wrong.

ABC News · May 19, 2022

'Clean hydrogen' confounds most Aussies

The term "clean hydrogen" confounds most Australians, with a new poll showing just 22 per cent know it can involve fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage.

AAP · May 18, 2022

A clean future or merely greenwashing? Critics claim Coalition's hydrogen plans are a 'fig leaf' for fossil fuels

Plans by the federal government to develop a "clean" hydrogen industry in Australia have been branded greenwashing by critics who say taxpayer money is being used to subsidise fossil fuel activities.

ABC News · May 11, 2022