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Closer lookPremiumCall for climate check on Origin Energy

Origin Energy has received a shareholder resolution seeking that the company include a climate sensitivity analysis in its audited financial statements.

Marion Rae

US switchGerman energy giant Uniper set to shake up Woodside LNG supply

German energy company Uniper is considering swapping its liquefied natural gas supply from Australia for US gas.

Vera Eckert and Marwa Rashad

Renewable displayDesign work begins on Kwinana green hydrogen project

A government collaboration with industry and research organisations has pushed the button on engineering and design for a small-scale LNG and renewable hydrogen demonstration plant at Kwinana.

Stuart McKinnon

Securing supplyPremiumRinehart, POSCO to spend $1b on Queensland gas expansion

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is partnering with South Korean steel giant POSCO to expand gas projects in Queensland in a move welcomed by local industry.

Marion Rae

Leading the chargeCommentsThe Perth recycler lighting up the lithium-ion sector

Perth-bred Leon Farrant plans to fill a niche in the battery recycling market, saying the global green energy transition would drive increasing interest in the re-use of the energy source.

Cheyanne Enciso

‘Significant advantage’ CommentsOil and gas giants has upper hand on green change: Coleman

The green energy transition will favour companies with existing infrastructure that can be scaled into renewables as oil and gas continues to decline, according to Infinite Green Energy chair Peter Coleman.

Danielle Le Messurier

Powering aheadInfinite Green Energy to progress renewable hydrogen project

Infinite Green Energy has partnered with WA fuel distributor Refuel Australia, marking a step closer in delivering the State’s first commercial-scale renewable hydrogen.

Cheyanne Enciso

Locked inPremiumBeach agrees on terms for LNG supply from Waitsia to BP

Beach Energy has agreed on financial terms with oil and gas giant BP for the supply of LNG from its Waitsia joint venture gas project near Dongara.

Stuart McKinnon

Hot demandLondon firm looks to Pilbara to develop lithium plant

A London-based firm eyeing expansion in sustainable lithium hydroxide plans to build a sulphate plant in WA’s Pilbara region. 

Adrian Lowe

Green planPremiumWhy Macquarie is betting on Europe’s North Sea

The Australian bank is one of the world’s top investors in energy infrastructure and is now looking at pushing the UK to be Europe’s energy hub.

Rachel Morison, Todd Gillespie and Isis Almeida

Deal closedUranium veteran talks up nuclear on merger

The boss of aspiring uranium miner Deep Yellow believes climate change, energy security and technological improvements have moved the dial for nuclear energy as a safe, low-emissions supplier of baseload power.

Stuart McKinnon

Reforms neededMore bill shock without clean energy investment

Pressure is rising on Australian governments to overhaul the electricity grid and keep a lid on rising bills, but not by backing fossil fuels.

Marion Rae

EnergyPremiumNegative Tas emissions 'envy of nation'

Tasmania has maintained net negative emissions for seven consecutive years, the state government's latest greenhouse gas report shows.

Tara Cosoleto

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Nationals MP tipped for role in Twiggy’s green energy empire

Vince Catania is the latest name linked to Andrew Forrest’s burgeoning Fortescue Future Industries as part of a huge recruitment drive by the company.

Josh Zimmerman

Big quarterPremiumBP earnings triple on rising energy prices

BP's earnings have tripled in the second quarter as the British energy giant profited from oil and natural gas prices that soared after Russia invaded Ukraine

Danica Kirka

Back to courtCommentsRound two for Conservation Council’s Scarborough challenge

The Conservation Council is pushing ahead this week with the second part of a two-pronged legal bid to scuttle Woodside Energy’s proposed Scarborough development.

Neale Prior

‘sobering reading’Premium'Do right thing': Chalmers urges gas firms

Gas companies are being called on to "do the right thing" by Australian industries and workers after the release of a damning report about the gas market.

Tess Ikonomou

Change upCommentsPremiumDenise Goldsworthy appointed as new Western Power chair

Prominent Perth businesswoman Denise Goldsworthy has been appointed as the new chair of energy company Western Power, replacing Colin Beckett.

Caitlin Paroczai

Disclosure clampdown Net zero action ‘not a decision for tomorrow’

Former RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle has warned companies must be planning for net zero emissions now because an investment in reducing emissions does not start in the year it is to take effect.

Adrian Lowe

Resilient sector CommentsEnergy concerns lift value of WA stocks to $300b

The 2022 Deloitte WA Index showed the gains were achieved on the back of strong prices in key commodities. And for the first time in a decade, Woodside regained the top spot as WA’s largest listed company.

Danielle Le Messurier

energy resurgenceCommentsPremiumExxon is back as Big Oil’s cash flow rivals tech

Exxon Mobil’s cash haul overtook that of Alphabet for the first time since 2018, proving the oil giant is back just a year after suffering one of the biggest activist shareholder upsets in corporate history.

Kevin Crowley

Confident outlookPremiumEV players keen for Kwinana offtake deals: Tianqi

Tianqi Lithium Kwinana’s chief operating officer says strong demand for his company’s product — to be used in the high-value electric vehicle battery supply chain — is keeping him optimistic about the future. 

Cheyanne Enciso

EnergyPrice hikes drive record energy switch

More Australians opted to switch energy providers in June than ever before as soaring power price rises take a toll on household bills.

Cassandra Morgan

‘Unnatural disasters’Comments‘Breaking point’: Labor MP issues grim climate warning

A new Labor MP has linked bushfires that destroyed Great Southern homes this summer to climate change, as the Albanese Government launches an attempt to enshrine its greenhouse gas reduction target in law.

Peter Law