Energy & Natural Resources

The holder of a mining tenement in Western Australia has succeeded in setting aside a $500,000 statutory demand by a pastoral leaseholder, with a court finding there was a genuine issue in dispute about whether the amount was owed when no mining activities were undertaken.

Retail energy supplier AGN has defended its series of 'Love Gas' ads against enforcement action by the consumer regulator, saying it had reasonable grounds for promising the product was "becoming renewable".

A court has found that Moolarben Coal waived privilege over legal advice given by a Sydney silk in the course of a warranty dispute over a Komatsu haul truck that caught fire.

A solar company's claims against 12 Mazars' partners have been dismissed from a $9.3 million embezzlement lawsuit, after a judge found the allegations had no prospects of success.

The state of Victoria has given fast-track approval to two battery energy storage systems, the latest renewable projects expedited through the state's Development Facilitation Program.

Investment firm KKR is teaming up with asset manager HMC Capital, investing up to $603 million in a project devoted to wind and battery assets. 

Danish company Vestesen Hybrid Energy has taken Zenith Energy to court for allegedly infringing its patented system for operating an electrical grid where energy is generated by a fluctuating renewable energy source. 

A judge wants more information before allowing Acciona employees to access documents from the company's Swiss rival and co-defendant in a dispute over the receivership of the East Rockingham waste-to-energy project. 

An appeals court has thrown out mining billionaire and AMCI co-founder Hans Mende's challenge to a ruling that found his decision to sack the group's Australian managing director was invalid.

Renewables investor Octopus Australia has acquired a battery energy storage system in NSW and a solar farm and battery project in Queensland, expanding its $16 billion renewables portfolio.