Now that our rooftop solar industry has matured, we need to reconsider the purpose of feed-in tariffs and align them with our goals for the electricity system in the future.
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The need to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a major challenge to cheap electricity.
Batteries aren’t the only type of storage, and all types of storage have their role to play in the future grid.
Whatever our electricity grid looks like in the future, it will need to be reliable.
The recently updated Integrated Resource Plan calls for significant investment in South Africa’s power supply. But can the country afford it?
Raging debates about the state of South Africa’s energy industry have missed one critical area, the role of transport fuels and base chemicals.
Gaining a better sense of what genes are involved in regulating circadian clocks could put us on a path to find better treatments and therapies to help people adjust to time shifts.
The argument put forward by Eskom that it can handle South Africa’s controversial nuclear build programme is fundamentally flawed.
The potential shutdown of Victoria’s Hazelwood power station could leave a large gap in coal-fired baseload generation. But other coal power stations have plenty of spare capacity to fill the gap.
South Australia’s recent blackout raised questions about the role of wind energy in Australia’s electricity network.
Wind and solar power can be intermittent. Should our usage be too?
The Norwegian capital shows other cities how it’s done, by setting out a tailor-made plan to reduce emissions to zero by 2030.
South Australia is recovering from a state-wide blackout, and fingers are pointing at the state’s renewable energy industry and climate change.
The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
Australian superannuation funds are joining the trend to invest in infrastructure because it’s safer for industry members.
An electric fan cools you down in extreme heat, but not if you’re old.
The recent meeting of Australia’s energy ministers had a major focus on gas in our power sector.
How bad are things for U.S. coal? Very bad, but that’s very good for environment. Now the question is whether other countries will cut back on coal as well.
A former state regulator and member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission argues that subsidizing reactors to keep them running is unnecessary and will be bad for consumers and the environment.
A nuclear engineer makes the case that nuclear power plants are important resources and should receive economic rewards for providing steady supplies of carbon-free electricity.
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
