Energy Minister Chris Bowen has changed the rules of Labor’s flagship renewables scheme to avoid a major undershoot of the government’s 82 per cent 2030 target.
Federal and state governments hope plans to force data centres and the Tomago smelter to buy new green power will salvage the stuttering renewables rollout.
The Albanese government will shutter a long-running program that allowed companies to make claims about their products and services being carbon-neutral.
Fewer than half the projects in the early rounds of Labor’s flagship renewables subsidy scheme are likely to ever get built, energy experts have warned.
Tesla sold more Model Ys in Australia in June than any single car model since the Holden Commodore in the 1990s. Do we have enough energy to power them all?
The government will back down on retrospective tax changes on foreign investors, but green groups say the new rules will slow Australia’s energy transition.
