Ryan Cropp

The growth of renewables and EVs over the past decade have helped cut economy-wide energy use by 302 petajoules – equivalent to filling up 160 million cars.

The former Liberal prime minister says a Coalition plan to repeal Labor’s energy and climate policies is a “recipe for dearer electricity”.

Government subsidies and an influx of cheap Chinese models led more Australians to buy an electric vehicle in August than any other month on record.

The NSW government will throw out interstate objections to data centre and renewables projects in an effort to unclog the state’s planning system.

Environmental groups are deeply divided over a Nationals-led attempt to block the funding of a new national park with carbon credits.

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 total capacity of new home battery installations has fallen by almost 70 per cent since subsidy changes in May.

The Albanese government has launched a review of its flagship policy to cut carbon emissions in the heavy industrial sector.

The Albanese government will shutter a long-running program that allowed companies to make claims about their products and services being carbon-neutral.