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Treasury modelling suggests average household will be $230 better off after national cabinet backed $1.5bn intervention

Treasury advised the PM and premiers not to deliver the rebates as cash handouts due to risk of fuelling inflationary pressure

The government expects its energy market intervention will spare the average household from $230 in otherwise expected price hikes next year, as national cabinet agrees to impose price caps on gas and coal.

The development of big batteries and long duration storage will be prioritised under an agreement between energy ministers to accelerate the switch from coal to renewables.

One week after 13 Republican state attorneys general asked federal energy officials to consider blocking Vanguard Group from buying utility stocks because of its relationships with anti-coal and anti-natural gas activists, the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based investment giant has pulled out of an international group committed to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions…

Blaming coal for the electricity grid's conversion crisis

Advocates urge Congress to update black lung program

Energy companies and unions have expressed broad support for a Greens' proposal to establish a national transition authority to manage the energy transition.

Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war in Europe. What they’ll see is pain – electricity and gas…