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Catch 22: renewable energy can help fight climate change, but climate change might prove hard on renewable energy.
There’s a wealth of climate policies to choose from this election – but what will they do electricity prices?
Phasing out fossils fuels would go a long way to stopping dangerous climate change – but it might be harder than we thought.
Renewable energy has had a rough time in Australia. Good climate policy could fix that.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a new “Clean Energy Innovation Fund”. But will it generate much-needed investment in the sector?
Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months or even longer at a time.
Solar panels and roads — combining them just makes sense to help meet our clean energy needs, right? Maybe not quite.
Updated forecasts from CSIRO suggest electricity prices will continue to rise as more renewable energy enters the grid.
A large solar thermal plant in Morocco will provide energy for 1m people – here’s how it will work.
Mozambique has long standing energy challenges and widespread energy poverty. To change this, particularly for people living in rural areas, it needs to democratise the way it supplies energy.
Integrated research is key to sustainable development, which helps Africa resolve its energy woes.
For the sake of mitigating climate change, the African continent needs to make low carbon energy choices.
Solar hot water is an excellent way to heat up without adding to your electricity bill. Unfortunately, it seems Australians are not getting the most from their solar hot water systems.
New funding for large-scale solar could be backing a winner, but only with the right leadership.
Given existing technologies, expanding access to electricity almost always increases CO2 emissions. There are real trade-offs between addressing poverty and climate change.
Victoria’s solar will soon get a mere 5 cents for power they send to the grid. But is that a fair price?
Labor’s proposal for 50% renewables demonstrates in spades how poisonous climate change politics has trumped good policy.
Rooftop solar power is exploding in the US but some scientists are pursuing a radically different route in renewable energy: storing solar energy as a liquid fuel.
Australia, like much of the rest of the world, is in the midst of an energy transition, driven by falling demand and uptake of renewables. Community energy is one way we can mange this transition to the benefit of all Australians.
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool
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Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Professor, Grand Valley State University
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Affiliate, Electricity Markets & Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Associate Professor in Biophysics, University of Pretoria
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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DVC Research and Innovation, Strathmore University
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Emeritus professor, Australian National University
