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New South Wales has introduced comprehensive Data Centre Guidelines to manage the rapid growth of data centre investment while addressing resource, environmental and community impacts. The framework establishes six core principles with 17 performance measures covering energy efficiency, water usage, consumer cost protection, renewable energy commitments and community benefits.

As energy shocks intensify and Australia's fuel-security vulnerabilities become more acute, businesses relying on imported liquid fuels face mounting pressure on margins and operations. This analysis examines how firms can move beyond short-term crisis management to build structural resilience through contract redesign, operational efficiency, fleet transformation, and supply chain reconfiguration.

An ICO is a fundraising mechanism using blockchain technology (bitcoin or ether) to sell tokens to fund new projects.

This article will focus on recommendations on energy security and reliability in the NEM in the Finkel and AEMO Reports.

Amendments to GEO which take effect April 2018 create opportunities for government agencies and community energy projects.

Australia's energy storage market is expanding rapidly, yet long-duration energy storage (LDES) faces a critical financing challenge. While the technical need for storage systems capable of discharging for eight hours or more is widely accepted, the market does not yet fully reward the reliability, resilience and system benefits these projects provide, creating a gap between capital costs and available revenue that threatens bankability.

Critical minerals are a star performer in Australia's resources portfolio, given the acceleration of EV production.

In recent months Commonwealth and State Governments have announced a number of funding and policy developments dedicated to "energising" Australia's position in the global hydrogen economy.

Renewable energy, climate change and emissions reduction policy are all key campaign issues for both major parties.

On 22 November, the Government formally released its Consultation Paper on the design of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Norton Rose Australia attended the key stakeholders’ briefing on the CFI in Canberra on Friday 19 November 2010 and we provide this update on the Consultation Paper and the details provided at this briefing.

A wind farm agreement provides a wind farm operator rights to exclusive possession over land for wind farm equipment.

Energy market participants, including generators, retailers, financiers and service providers, should read the article.

Significant state government subsidies and other investment strategies should increase the uptake of electric vehicles.

Australia's Climate Change Authority is about to embark on its first review of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme.

The Queensland Court of Appeal has delivered a landmark decision on land valuation methodology for renewable energy projects, examining whether a 500MW solar farm and battery storage facility should be valued as rural or non-rural land. The case centered on a dispute involving nearly six million dollars in valuation differences and raises critical questions about how development approvals for renewable energy infrastructure impact statutory land valuations under Queensland's Land Valuation Act 2010.

Australia's renewable energy transition is creating unprecedented tensions as large-scale wind, solar and storage projects increasingly overlap with mining and petroleum tenements...

The Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap will enable NSW's electricity system to become a more renewables-focused industry.