The West can reveal new guidelines to ensure local communities benefit from wind and solar projects excludes major infrastructure that will be needed to connect them to WA’s power grid.
Jessica Page
The company behind a $15 billion green hydrogen and ammonia plant in WA’s Murchison is confident it can make a final investment decision by the end of 2027 as it pursues offtake markets beyond shipping fuels.
Katina Curtis
WA’s scramble for green energy projects is heating up with the British company behind two northern Wheatbelt wind farms lodging plans for an even bigger build.
Matt Mckenzie
APA Group boss Adam Watson is backing in the potential of a big green energy rollout in the Pilbara even as customers push back their transition timelines.
Synergy chief Kurt Baker won’t say whether the power supplier asked for a taxpayer bailout last year but has warned “there’s no guarantees” about the utility’s financial future.
The green rush to build power projects in WA has attracted another hopeful with development plans lodged to build a $500 million battery south of Perth.
The investment, Magellan Power’s first outside equity injection, follows the company’s decision last year to mandate PKF Corporate to seek $15m from a strategic investor.
Sean Smith
Albany residents will face bills between $600 to $2000 to convert from town to bottled gas once the decommissioning of the city’s gas network starts later this year, according to local plumbers.
Claire Middleton
A host of local governments from across the Wheatbelt have demanded a seat at the table regarding decisions about the renewable energy projects being built in their backyard.
Hannah Whitehead
A company with ambitious plans to build a giant green hydrogen project in the Pilbara says the Federal Government will chip in $21 million to help, despite major partner BP walking away.
The price WA power stations are paid to stay online and keep the grid reliable is expected to double over just two years.
Amber-Jade Sanderson has talked up WA’s roll out of green energy after new data showed power prices were finally on the way down.
An influx of batteries and renewables has been credited with driving WA power prices lower in the final months of 2025.
Sean Connery’s character in the 1987 film The Untouchables, Jim Malone, warns a fictional assassin sent by mafia man Al Capone he should not bring a knife to a gun fight.
Premier Roger Cook’s move to prop up insolvent miner Griffin Coal until 2031 should help avoid a big increase in WA’s power bills, analysts say.
Fortescue has started construction on a Pilbara wind farm amid a flurry of activity by green energy developers across the State in the opening weeks of 2026.
Councillors from the Shire of Waroona have made their stance on future wind farms in the region known.
Craig Duncan
The local boss of wind farm contractor Vestas is bullish that a wave of investment into the sector is looming next year.
Shares in Macmahon have hit a 13-year high after the mining services group extended a lucrative coal contract in Queensland and won wind farm work in WA.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will guzzle up vast amounts of water if Fortescue’s need for an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by.
Adrian Rauso
Waste contractor Veolia has taken the extraordinary step of publicly slamming the sale process of the collapsed East Rockingham waste to energy plant.
A group of local investors has lodged development plans for a $750 million wind farm in the Great Southern with the backing of State-owned Synergy.
A global rush to hoard critical mineral supplies has helped Gina Rinehart-backed Vulcan Energy Resources clinch $3.9 billion in a mammoth funding effort to build one of the only lithium mines in Europe.
Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell
A big wind farm backed by the State Government has become embroiled in widening concerns about asbestos contamination.
