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A new pricing guide from the national energy regulator has been released, allowing retailers to pass on the cost of surging wholesale power prices to consumers.

Geothermal energy in most places is an expensive dead end. But like the masked baddie in a low budget horror flick, it won't stay in its grave, it keeps returning to the political agenda.

In 2009, Tim Flannery's Geodynamics won a $90 million government grant. By 2016 it was all over. But six years is a long time in the world of geothermal energy hype.

After walkouts, tears and last-minute deals, the UN climate summit in Glasgow is over, and all 197 countries have signed up to the final agreement. So what's in it? Today on The Signal, we're bringing you the successes and...

A week ago we were wondering what the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26, might deliver for humanity. We'd been told many times that the world is not on track to limit warming to less than 2 degrees, and that Glasgow was...

There's a lot of pressure on the leaders of wealthy countries gathering in Glasgow at the moment to be more ambitious on cutting emissions. When the focus turns to Australia, the prime minister Scott Morrison has a standard...

There's a lot of pressure on the leaders of wealthy countries gathering in Glasgow at the moment to be more ambitious on cutting emissions. When the focus turns to Australia, the prime minister Scott Morrison has a standard...

It's been a long time coming, but the Nationals have finally agreed in-principle on terms for a net zero by 2050 target. Announcing the deal on Sunday evening, Barnaby Joyce wouldn't say what the final conditions were, and...

The National Party have again met to debate the Liberal Party's plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The global economy is in weirder shape than it's been in a long time. Major economies are emerging from lockdown, a complicated set of dynamics in Europe and Asia is causing energy prices to soar, and there's a new focus...

One of Australia's richest men is betting on green hydrogen to make Australia a world leader in renewable energy while creating jobs in the process.

It's been hard to open a news app this week without running headlong into a story about hydrogen. But for an energy source that seems to be all the rage, it's still pretty hard to come by, which might explain the generalised...

Project in Seaham, County Durham, will use water from mine shafts to heat 1,500 new homes

Most master-planned communities take into account things like location to central services and inclusion of a gym, but North Oak at Oakvillage, a multiphase condominium development in Oakville, Canada, builds housing units...

Team behind project at United Downs site near Redruth say power plant will be producing electricity and heat by next year