Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners ...

Given Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations are breaking down more often, going nuclear would mean spending billions on extending their lives while discouraging solar and wind. This could ...

The opposition leader’s policy will almost certainly never get off the ground, but it has solved a long-standing problem.

And plants were built by migrant workers ... while killing off plans for a major pumped-hydro facility. Given Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations are breaking down more often, going ...

The developments underscore the unreliability of Australia’s ageing coal fleet. The Coalition has said it will run the plants for longer to allow time to build seven nuclear power stations.

For a great example of how not to pitch nuclear energy, look to Australia. The country's right-wing opposition parties head ...

The Coalition has said it sees a longer future for coal power in Australia as it bides sufficient time to build seven nuclear power stations at the site of retiring plants. It is, however ...

The LNP state government wants Peter Dutton to win the next election but won’t say what will do to fend off the Coalition’s ...

The Victorian government’s “aggressive” electrification of the power network is likely to result in mass blackouts with demand forecast to outweigh renewable energy supply by more than 30 per cent in ...

Some 90 per cent of coal power capacity will be closed by 2035 due to financial pressures, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator, and yet coal plants still meet more than half of ...