There are calls from the backbench and elsewhere for the federal government to safeguard the future of coal. But do those calls make economic sense? A look at Queensland's energy landscape suggests not.
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Scott Morrison's budget speech held no surprises on energy, after months of debate over the National Energy Guarantee. The real news comes in July with the release of a crucial ACCC report on power prices.
On Q&A, Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher said South Australia's high electricity prices were "the consequence" of Jay Weatherill's renewable energy policies. Is that right?
The end of Jay Weatherill's government has removed a significant obstacle to progress on the federal National Energy Guarantee – even though we don't yet know what the full policy will look like.
The European Investment Bank's funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
As federal and state energy ministers gather to discuss the Turnbull government's proposed National Energy Guarantee, many of the finer details of the modelling are not yet available.
As the Clean Energy Target fades away, perhaps a Dispatchable Reliable Energy Target will be innocuous enough to pass the Liberal party room and the Senate.
What a year it's been for fans of energy politics. And 12 months after the blackout, the policy heat is still being generated.
Victoria's plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.
Western Australia has huge amounts of sunshine and wind, yet only 7% of its energy comes from renewables. What's more, most households in the poorest suburbs are still locked out of the solar panel boom.
A panel of leading economists has given its majority verdict on Alan Finkel's proposed Clean Energy Target: it may not be the best possible emissions policy, but we should get on with it anyway.
Estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that the number of direct full-time equivalent jobs in renewable energy activities has continued to fall from its 2011-12 peak.
The goals are clear: clean, cheap, reliable energy. But no-one can agree how we get there.
In the absence of strong federal action on climate change, many states have developed their own climate and energy policies.
The electricity network can be used proactively to meet Australia's climate and renewable energy targets.
Germany’s energy transition is often held up as an incredible success story. So what can Australia learn?
Whatever our electricity grid looks like in the future, it will need to be reliable.
The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s – years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.
New research has found that carbon intensive companies have lost focus on reducing emissions under Direct Action, when compared with the carbon tax.
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Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Co-director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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CEO at ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Chair of Geology & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Director of the Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
