Daniel Mercer is the Energy Reporter for the ABC's National, Regional and Rural Team. He's been a journalist since 2007 covering politics and business, with a particular focus on energy and resources.
Historic legislation to establish a national gas reservation scheme is before federal parliament. Experts say the biggest driver of high prices could slip free.
After a decade of high prices and political wrangling, the Federal Government is hoping a proposed new domestic reservation scheme will fix Australia's gas market problems.
This week's unseasonal heat, coal outages and transmission constraints sent NSW power prices soaring, but batteries added a twist.
Topic: Electricity Production and Distribution
It's been billed as the country's last great, untapped gas resource and one that's vital for safeguarding energy supplies in Western Australia.
The giant resource basin off WA's Kimberley coast has eluded oil and gas players for decades, and fresh analysis argues it should stay that way, despite a last-ditch bid by Woodside and its partners to seize the prize.
Industry players say draft gas reservation plans are full of carve-outs that will let a venture many blame for rising prices off the hook.
Renewable energy company SunCable's plan to export solar power from Australia to Singapore is looking less likely by the day.
It has unrivalled ambition and is backed by a tech billionaire, but Sun Cable's plans to export solar power to Singapore are floundering.
Historically, forecasting power reliability was a sober task. Experts say Australia is now counting on projects that will never be built.
There are growing fears from energy experts that Australia's energy capacity outlook is too reliant on so-called "zombie projects" that may never actually be built.
A bitter fight is brewing between EV charging companies and poles-and-wires companies, and now a regulator has weighed in.
Throughout a decade of wild price swings and ugly headlines, Australia's gas industry has maintained a united front against any and every attempt by governments to intervene. For the first time, cracks are appearing in the facade of gas industry solidarity in Australia and they're revealing deep frustrations with one player - Santos.
Cracks are appearing in the facade of the gas industry's solidarity and all fingers are pointing towards one player.
Batteries have been hailed as an antidote to price pain, but strange charging behaviour in WA has pushed the market higher. Now the regulator is preparing to intervene.
Australia's biggest transmission company's bid to pass a billion-dollar bill on to consumers for a bungled high-voltage power line has been slapped down by the regulator.
For Australia to phase out coal power and reach its 2030 green energy goals, wind is seen as essential. A drought of new projects has analysts worried.
A key issue shaping up for this November's state election is Victoria's power supply. The Labor government has signed a deal for $7.6 billion powerline, while the Coalition has hardened its stance to block the project.
Australia is leading the world in the adoption of batteries big and small. But in one state, storage is fuelling some perverse and pricey outcomes.
Australians' love of solar power has also become a love of storing it with almost half a million homes installing a battery under the Federal Government's subsidy scheme.
Thousands of households with batteries installed under the federal government's scheme are choosing not to sign up to be a so-called virtual power plant that sells stored energy back to the grid.
Consumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built, experts say.
Federal subsidies have ignited huge demand for batteries, but a tightening of the rules has experts warning of "boom and bust" cycles for the industry.
Falling battery costs and a data centre-fuelled dash for gas have overturned decades of accepted wisdom: gas is no longer the cheapest way to meet peak power demand.
South Australia is at the bleeding edge of the energy transition but record low winds have pushed its grid to the brink of its limits.
Some electricity users have been hit with higher charges, despite all the talk of the lower default market offers. Retailers say a rebalancing of supply and usage charges is the cause, but the regulator is investigating.
