In 2021, Australian gas producer Santos unveiled ambitious plans to turn the near depleted Bayu-Undan gas field in the Timor Sea into a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility. In the three years since, Santos has yet to disclose the costs or provide technical details on the world’s largest CCS venture proposal. The project also...

The authors of this report assert that experience with the few existing small modular reactors (SMRs) that have been built or are under construction shows a repetition of the nuclear industry’s longstanding history - the facilities have been both significantly over budget and have taken much longer to complete than forecast.

The east coast of Australia faces the prospect of excess gas demand in coming years due to declining gas production, with the imminent possibility of short-lived periods of excess demand in Victoria on peak demand days. However, this analysis shows that cost-effective and targeted interventions to lower gas demand could fully eradicate anticipated peak day...

Despite the billions spent and pledged on the Beetaloo Basin’s shale gas reserves, it could prove to be a massive sinkhole for investors’ and taxpayers’ cash, according to this report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

This report from IEEFA highlights that consumers’ purchases of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), such as rooftop solar, battery storage and demand-responsive appliances, can unlock faster decarbonisation and lower energy bills if Australian energy ministers take supportive action.