The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far.
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Residents of a small Northern Cape town in South Africa were left disappointed after their lives did not improve dramatically when a wind power farm was built.
The energy transition requires the development of new infrastructure, which can have adverse effects on the environment and on certain communities.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing costs of the energy transition and Peter Dutton's nuclear plan.
Transmission towers bent like soft plastic when extreme winds whipped through Victoria last week. Fixing it means asking hard questions.
Australians want government to act on climate change, but not necessarily now, or in their neighbourhood. How can governments resolve this dilemma?
Wind farm owners are keeping old turbines in service to capitalise on high electricity prices.
If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma?
Of all Australia’s climate policies, the Renewable Energy Target has been the most effective. Why have Australian governments moved away from it, and how can they revive it?
Australia has a lot of wind and sun, but will we actually become a world leader in renewable energy generation?
New research shows European lobsters are using the deposits of rocks and boulders at the base of wind turbines as shelter.
The UK needs to use at least 7% of its available ocean space for offshore wind.
A new documentary has tracked a Russian vessel apparently collecting data on energy and communications infrastructure in the North Sea and Baltic.
To achieve a target of 82% renewable energy generation by 2030 requires a huge number of new sites for solar and wind farms.
We’ll need to almost double our electricity sector workforce to build renewables as quickly as we need to. Where will the workers come from amid a skills shortage and infrastructure boom?
Some of the most powerful offshore wind is over water too deep for a standard wind turbine. Engineers found a way around the problem.
Dairy farming accounts for a quarter of New Zealand’s total emissions. Fermentation technology could help cut agricultural emissions, while also restoring water and ecological quality.
Coal plants are exiting the grid faster than expected. We’ll need to redouble efforts to add flexibility into our energy systems and build renewables and storage.
Australia is already in the grip of a skills shortage. We’re going to have to solve that before we can start on the big renewables build.
We arrived at this moment thanks to a series of policy decisions under previous governments – state and federal - that left Australia’s energy system unable to cope with the demands placed on it.
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