Retailers have decided it’s their turn to extract more blood from the stone, pushing up business consumption charges by 20-40%.

The state of Queensland appears ready to embark on what could be one of the most radical transformations of its electricity network ever undertaken - even by standards of ambitious mandates in places such as California, Germany and Denmark.

What does a regional utility do when it's in the state with Australia's highest uptake of rooftop solar? Encourage the uptake of battery storage, of course.

Victoria's Labor government has announced a wholesale review of the brown coal industry, as energy minister Lily D'Ambrosia confirms the state's need to look to new and clean energy technologies, and the jobs of the future.