Victorian shadow minister Richard Welch has signalled Liberal support for Canberra’s data centres green energy standards, removing a potential post-election flashpoint between the state and federal governments. An elected...
The Northern Territory has joined Queensland in opposing national rules for data centres and AI companies that would force them to offset their electricity demand by investing in additional...
A wave of gas-powered data centres in the US are driving up the price of gas-based energy technologies, making battery alternatives more attractive, CSIRO economists have found in their...
The Minns government will spend $6.5 billion procuring and supporting thousands of electric buses in the coming decade, as part of a domestic manufacturing package unveiled Tuesday in the...
Australia could vastly expand its green energy grid by forcing new data centres to build matching renewables, a new report says, while warning that the competition to attract data...
The CSIRO’s energy transition research hub in Newcastle will tackle more cutting-edge projects like storing excess grid electricity in electric vehicle batteries following a $3 million laboratory upgrade that...
The Albanese government’s biggest innovation grant program quietly opened last month, offering $1.5 billion for technology projects that help Australia transition to net zero. Labor’s net zero tech push...
Renewables remain the cheapest new form of electricity generation, the CSIRO has again shown, even when accounting for decarbonised system costs that critics of the previous modelling claimed could...
The opposition’s net zero-less energy plan would upend Australia’s energy innovation agency and green bank so they could fund controversial technologies favoured by the conservative party like carbon capture...
Anthony Albanese has used his visit to the UN in New York this week to also sell Australia as a stable investment destination for American capital, calling for partnerships...