Our new report makes 12 recommendations for how industry, government, educators and First Nations communities can create jobs and fulfilling careers in clean energy.
Kean has poured cold water on the Opposition’s nuclear power plan, pointing to experts who have said it doesn’t make economic sense and would take too long to implement.
The sun sets over electric pylons along a solar farm near Weifang in eastern China’s Shandong province in March 2024.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Frank Jotzo, Australian National University; Llewelyn Hughes, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University e Rebecca Colvin, Australian National University
The Net Zero Economy Authority will have a broad remit to support the net zero transition. Here are some pointers on how it could go about it, based on an assessment of best practice
Without a green energy transition Australia won’t meet its emissions reductions promises. But despite punching above its weight for years, the electricity sector isn’t transforming quickly enough.
Workers tunnelling through mountains and redirecting rivers, powering and irrigating the nation. We think of the Snowy scheme as a successful nationbuilding project – but it wasn’t always that way
Yes we need land for solar panels, wind farms, batteries, pumped hydro, transmission lines and so on. But the amount of land is surprisingly small, when you do the sums. Here’s why.
Demonstration at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on the day of the nuclear phase-out, 15 April 2023.
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The Fort Randall hydropower dam in South Dakota flooded thousands of acres of Native American land when it was built in 1952.
Harry Weddington, USACE/Wikipedia
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently ruled that it won’t approve energy projects on Native lands without tribal consent. But many more applications are pending.