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Summer is here and the chance of blackouts is higher than normal. But the cause is unlikely to be the power station. The problem is usually much closer to home – in the local poles and wires.
The government wants the power to break up power companies if they keep prices high. There’s little to suggest it would achieve much.
The oil-exporting organization may have mustered the political will to cut production, but its disunity remains intact.
Brexit may be an unexpected boon for the UK’s climate leadership. Here’s how the UK can seize the initiative.
In the final sitting week for the year, the encryption bill was finally passed, and the Liberal Party changed its rules to prevent sitting prime ministers being toppled.
South Australia’s energy prices have gone up as more renewables entered the market – but prices would have gone up even more without them.
The two countries have successfully collaborated on electricity supply for 11 years, but could Brexit pull this unique UK-Ireland innovation apart?
The energy required to power the massive, factory-sized data centres that computers rely on already consumes 5% of global electricity. And that energy load is doubling every decade.
Making the transition to a sustainable energy future also means ensuring that affected communities - such as Australia’s coal workers - aren’t left by the wayside.
The UK’s “illegal” backup power subsidy scheme effectively subsidised fossil fuel power generation. Lets use the hiatus to build a more flexible, low carbon energy system.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Labor’s promise to subsidise batteries for households quickly became, in government parlance, “pink batts to pink batteries” – seeking to trigger memories of Rudd’s policy that cost several lives.
The ALP estimates the battery subsidy would triple the number of battery systems in Australian households. The policy sets a national target of one million household battery installations by 2025.
It is possible to both tax carbon emissions and enrich households. A report to be released by UNSW today outlines how.
Even the Voyager spacecraft are controlled remotely, 20 billion kilometres away. It takes 20 hours for instructions to travel from Earth to the spacecraft but we can do it – using a remote.
A new poll reveals many Australians want to cut their electricity bills - but many also want to reduce emissions.
Research shows that when Americans are aware of the scale of food waste, and how much energy and water are used to produce food, they support measures to reduce the problem.
Video feedback may be the nearest we have to visualising what conscious processing in the brain is like.
Ahead of two state elections, the Grattan Institute Orange Book examines the state of each state and how each can do things better. The good news is that if each copied the best in each field they would do very well indeed.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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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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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO
