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The Macquarie Telecom data centre in Sydney’s Macquarie Park.

AI energy demand to grow tenfold

The surge in data centre growth will drive up emissions and electricity costs unless it is properly managed.

  • Nick O'Malley

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The cost of the project, which has faced significant blowouts since its inception, will be recouped from consumers in Tasmania and Victoria via network changes on their power bills.

The 345km undersea cable that will help Australia move on from coal

Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen has called it “one of the most important energy projects in our nation’s history”.

  • Nick Toscano
A new ‘essentials’ range of the BYD Dolphin hatchback will retail for $29,990 plus on road costs.

Chinese giant brings first EV for under $30,000 to Australia

BYD’s cheap electric vehicles coincide with government-backed low-cost finance loans for clean car buyers.

  • Mike Foley
Shalik Kharel says he’s saving more than $80 a week in petrol costs alone after buying an electric vehicle.

Police, nurses and firefighters to be enticed to buy electric vehicles

Essential workers and low and middle-income earners will be enticed with government-subsidised cheaper loans to take up electric vehicles, including second-hand EVs.

  • Bianca Hall
Peter Costello (left) has criticised Treasurer Jim Chalmers over the Future Fund.

Future Fund was doing its job, so why change it?

Jim Chalmers is a good treasurer, but he is trying to pull a swifty with his new mandate, writes one reader.

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic: “We want this to be a country that makes things.”

Tech, energy deals top the list for manufacturing fund’s first $5 billion

The government made the payment to the National Reconstruction Fund to mark the first meeting of its board and the start of talks over its investment mandate.

  • David Crowe
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Once completed, the Waratah Super Battery in NSW will rank among the biggest grid-scale batteries anywhere in the world

BlackRock raises $500m to build Australia’s biggest battery

The world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has raised more than $500 million with co-investors to fund a giant battery in Australia.

  • Nick Toscano
Brookfield has outlined ambitious plans to ramp up investments in renewables and storage to make Origin Energy the nation’s largest clean power supplier.

Brookfield lifts renewables spend to $30b in Origin takeover push

Origin Energy’s suitor has told the competition regulator that a takeover offers the ASX-listed target the best option to fund its ambitious transition to green energy.

  • Nick Toscano
Chevron’s carbon capture and storage project at the Gorgon LNG site in WA has fallen short of targets.

Safeguard mechanism tipped to spur carbon capture for fossil fuels

Experts predict the government’s climate policy will boost investor confidence in controversial carbon capture technology, but industry is calling for public subsidies.

  • Mike Foley

Shrill critics of Chalmers’ essay are missing the point

The Treasurer’s essay is being painted as a repudiation of the free market and a wholesale rejection of “supply-side” economics, when it is no such thing.

  • David Crowe