Brown coal


The long view: electricity consumers choose cheaper over green

Creating “certainty” is not the urgent issue for industry many believe. They might not realise it, but the urgency to create certainty rests with consumers, writes Ben Freund, CEO GoSwitch.com.au.

Decarbonising is a mammoth task

The height of the decarbonisation hill Australian governments need to climb this decade is underlined in the electricity industry’s just-released annual data, writes Keith Orchison.

Buy our brown coal! Now cleaning up on eBay

Victoria’s 13 billion tonnes of unallocated brown coal are now listed as an eBay item, under the seller name “BrumbyGovt”. Bids are open for the next seven days. The starting price is $1,000,000, writes Greg Foyster.