Matt Mckenzie

Regulators will be watching WA builders to prevent excessive price hikes for homebuyers as the industry braces for war-driven cost blowouts.

WA’s scramble for green energy projects is heating up with the British company behind two northern Wheatbelt wind farms lodging plans for an even bigger build.

Synergy chief Kurt Baker won’t say whether the power supplier asked for a taxpayer bailout last year but has warned “there’s no guarantees” about the utility’s financial future.

The green rush to build power projects in WA has attracted another hopeful with development plans lodged to build a $500 million battery south of Perth.

Western Power chief Sam Barbaro has taken to Linkedin to announce his exit after almost two decades at WA’s main network operator.

An American company’s plan to frack for gas in the Kimberley faces another round of intense regulatory scrutiny amid claims the project has copped a record number of appeals.

There’s no sign as to when AGL Energy will press go on a major expansion of the Kwinana gas power plant but boss Damien Nicks has signalled the company is keen to push further into the WA market.

Payments keeping WA grid reliable set to surge

KPMG estimates the average Gen X family is worth more than $2 million, thanks to skyrocketing property prices and superannuation growth.

Premier Roger Cook’s move to prop up insolvent miner Griffin Coal until 2031 should help avoid a big increase in WA’s power bills, analysts say.

Rapper The Notorious B.I.G might have an insight into Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock’s thinking as Aussie borrowers brace for bad news in the new year.

Australia’s beef industry fears an almost $1 billion hit after China slapped new trade restrictions on meat producers across the globe in a move the Albanese Government branded ‘very disappointing’. 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will on Wednesday unveil a slightly smaller than anticipated Budget deficit in a mid-year update expected to feature major spending cuts and rising revenue.

Waste contractor Veolia has taken the extraordinary step of publicly slamming the sale process of the collapsed East Rockingham waste to energy plant.

The troubled East Rockingham waste to energy project is set to remain in receivership another year while construction is finished.

Gold’s record run has driven a bigger national trade surplus in October and Western Australia once again dominated as the country’s export powerhouse.

American President Donald Trump’s attacks on free trade and the independence of the Federal Reserve bank are among the biggest threats to prosperity next year, Commonwealth Bank reckons.

The multibillion-dollar project could be key to the State Government’s hopes for a new energy grid as it races to switch off coal by 2030.

Administrators have been put in control of a Perth fitness technology startup that had been considered Australia’s answer to Peloton.

The price tag for Western Australia’s transition to clean energy may eclipse even Metronet.