Daniel Mercer is the Energy Reporter for the ABC's National, Regional and Rural Team. He's been a journalist since 2007 covering politics and business, with a particular focus on energy and resources.
The Australian Energy Market Operator has announced a proposal for "emergency backstop" measures to turn down, or switch off, rooftop solar to stabilise the energy grid. This is what it means for households.
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With the rise and rise of rooftop solar showing no signs of stopping in Australia, the market operator says "emergency" powers to control it are urgently needed.
The Australian Energy Market Commission will crack down on 'concerning practices' by some energy providers amid the rollout of smart meters across the country.
Household clean tech set-ups like solar and batteries can mean huge savings. But what's sitting behind the meter may become the most valuable asset as a new energy market emerges.
They're among the most popular household batteries and eligible for lucrative taxpayer subsidies, but critics say Tesla's products are costing consumers and the grid.
Amid the spinifex on a remote Western Australian island looms Chevron's troubled carbon capture facility. The role the technology might play in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is likely to get a fresh airing at global climate talks in Azerbaijan.
As Australia surges past a solar-powered milestone, questions turn to how much is too much, and can we hope to store it all?
For years, the mantra from the industry has been that gas is a bridge between coal and renewable energy. A landmark study has sensationally challenged that idea.
A remarkable first for coal power in Australia gave the beleaguered industry hope recently. But news this week might have snuffed it out again.
More than 150 years after pioneering the technology, the UK has shut its last coal-fired power station. Experts say it's a seminal moment for the energy transition.
A project held up as a flagship for Australia's fledgling green hydrogen industry loses its biggest backer as Origin Energy abandons plans for the fuel.
A simmering row between electricity retailers and poles-and-wires companies boils over amid claims consumers are being hurt by "perverse" complex prices.
For decades, a big risk to Australia's electricity system has been excessive demand in summer. Now, it is excessive supply in spring.
For half a century, Woodside has been the standard-bearer for Australian energy. But a weak share price and unpopularity have left it vulnerable to a US takeover, or move.
Some of Australia's richest industrialists will be allowed for the first time to send WA's gas overseas, with the state government opening up onshore reserves to exports.
When a town in Australia's South West was forced to switch off gas, residents were given a choice: use bottled gas or electrify. Now, electricity is providing more energy for Esperance than ever before and most of it is coming from renewable sources.
As Australia's electricity system gets cleaner, it is encountering a strange problem. More renewable energy is having to be wasted.
Australia is one of the world's biggest gas exporters, but we're about to start importing it from overseas.
Australia's power market operator says the outlook has improved for the country's biggest grid, but the risks of delays to new projects loom large.
Australia's peak energy user group and one of its biggest retailers sound the alarm on complex power prices, saying they're not working and may be harming.
Despite cuts to regulated power prices, some consumers are paying more than double the benchmark. Advocates say the system is broken.
Electric car sales are accelerating and along with it, additional demand for electricity. It's driving questions about how the grid will cope with the growing number of large batteries waiting to be charged.
A parliamentary inquiry puts the WA Labor government at odds with some of the country's wealthiest businesspeople after discounting the idea they should be allowed to export onshore gas.
Like millions of Australians, Doreen Fawcett is grappling with a nightmare of unwanted power bill complexity. Calls for simplification are growing.
Like much of the country, WA is embracing rooftop solar with breathtaking gusto. But the state's position as the world's biggest island grid is posing a unique problem with authorities asking the question — how much solar is too much solar?