Households will be hit with higher power bills from July 1 after the market regulator handed down its latest round of annual price setting.Price caps will rise for customers by between 0.5 per cent and 3.7 per cent in south-east Queensland, under a determination from the Australian Energy Regulator.South-east Queensland provider Energex is in the middle of the pack when it comes to annual bills.LoadingThe price spikes have been driven by higher costs in the electricity grid over the past year, which in turn were due to breakdowns at coal-fired power plants, elevated fossil fuel prices and rising costs for network infrastructure.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is doubling down on his ambitious renewable energy plans, declaring it the cheapest new source of power, while the federal Coalition brawls over emissions targets and its commitment to build nuclear energy instead of wind and solar farms.Queensland’s LNP government has put renewable energy projects under closer scrutiny, recently approving two wind farms but blocking another.Latest postsLatest postsAs Brisbane prepares to host the first State of Origin game at Suncorp Stadium tomorrow, a peak tourism body has warned the state has fallen behind to meet the accommodation demands of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.Currently, there are 46,000 hotel rooms in south-east Queensland, compared to 133,000 in Paris and 120,000 in 2028 host city Los Angeles.LoadingQueensland Tourism Industry Council said the state’s hotel room inventory is expected to grow to 51,000 by 2030, but that’s short of what’s required.“Our infrastructure is not keeping pace,” QTIC chief executive Natassia Wheeler said.“Queensland is attracting more visitors, more often, for longer stays. But our ability to host them is at breaking point. Hotel capacity, transport links, and tourism infrastructure must expand now to match our ambitions for 2032 and beyond.”QTIC’s warning arrived only weeks after a record Magic Round event in Brisbane at the start of May.The weekend attracted 48,000 interstate visitors and saw average hotel occupancy hover around 80 per cent, according to CoStar data.Figures from the start of last week show hotel occupancy in Brisbane for the State of Origin at 77 per cent.The Queensland Heritage Council has urged the Crisafulli government to tread carefully in its plans for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.LoadingThe government has moved to override heritage and other planning restrictions to deliver Games venues, including in Victoria Park where the environment department recently recommended a heritage listing be expanded.In a submission to a parliamentary committee inquiry into the planned override, Queensland Heritage Council chair Stuart Lummis urged the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority engage experts.“Delivering a world-class legacy from the Games does not have to occur through diminished heritage outcomes,” Lummis wrote.“There are numerous examples in Queensland and elsewhere of large-scale development that has respectfully retained and integrated heritage places through design excellence and sensitive adaptation, while conserving their significance. Households will be hit with higher power bills from July 1 after the market regulator handed down its latest round of annual price setting.Price caps will rise for customers by between 0.5 per cent and 3.7 per cent in south-east Queensland, under a determination from the Australian Energy Regulator.South-east Queensland provider Energex is in the middle of the pack when it comes to annual bills.LoadingThe price spikes have been driven by higher costs in the electricity grid over the past year, which in turn were due to breakdowns at coal-fired power plants, elevated fossil fuel prices and rising costs for network infrastructure.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is doubling down on his ambitious renewable energy plans, declaring it the cheapest new source of power, while the federal Coalition brawls over emissions targets and its commitment to build nuclear energy instead of wind and solar farms.Queensland’s LNP government has put renewable energy projects under closer scrutiny, recently approving two wind farms but blocking another. Advertisement In what feels like unseasonal weather, the mercury is expected to reach almost 30 degrees in Brisbane today, on a cloudy Tuesday.From tomorrow, however, temperatures for the rest of the week will plunge back down into more typical late-Autumn territory.Here’s a look at today’s weather, and the seven days to come.Here’s what’s making news further afield this morning:Health Minister Mark Butler wants significant attention paid to discovering why the rate of informal votes has almost tripled in hospitals and aged care centres as it potentially affects the results of closely contested electorates.Australian oil and gas giant Woodside Energy has pointed to crippling blackouts that left millions without electricity across Europe last month as a “forceful reminder” for the Albanese government to prioritise energy security alongside goals to switch to cleaner sources of power.Donald Trump has inflicted deep damage to three of the unique sources of American superpower, writes Peter Hartcher. “And he’s on the very brink of shattering a fourth.”Police surround the vehicle after a car ploughed into the crowd of Liverpool fans.A car has ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans during a parade celebrating their side’s Premier League soccer title, and police arrested a 53-year-old British man.They were just play fighting. That was French President Emmanuel Macron’s explanation for video images that showed his wife, Brigitte, pushing her husband away with both hands on his face before they disembarked from their plane.American surfer Griffin Colapinto has described a ride which included a spectacular aerial and earned a perfect 10 score at Margaret River as one of the “most incredible moments of my life”.Good morning, and welcome to Brisbane Times’ live news coverage for Tuesday, May 27. Today we can expect a partly cloudy day and a top temperature of 29 degrees.In this morning’s local headlines:The Morningside School of Arts building has been brought back from the brink of ruin, but its trustees say it needs a large injection of funds if it’s to survive past its 100th birthday in 2026.Renters in a handful of suburbs will find it’s cheaper to pay off a mortgage now that rents have soared and interest rates are falling. See where in Brisbane.A Queensland-born businessman has been identified as the Australian accused of accepting a 1.7 kilogram haul of cocaine in Bali for a promised reward of just $4700.And once heralded the heir apparent to Broncos great Allan Langer, Tom Dearden has trodden an arduous road from a prodigious, yet gun-shy, talent to a State of Origin warrior who looms as the successor to Daly Cherry-Evans.