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Britain’s households are facing a cold winter but its power market could learn something from neighbouring systems to avert a crisis
International experience suggests South Africa can benefit by focusing on a simple restructuring of its power utility, allowing well-run state-owned entities to flourish.
The hybrid nature of threats to South Africa’s energy infrastructure can only be solved by an integrated solution, including severe sanctions that should include fines and imprisonment.
Ghana’s power sector is mired in debt and excess production.
An economist explains coal power’s rise and fall in charts.
An expert assesses the weak links in a warming UK.
Five essential reads on why South Africa is failing to keep the lights on.
Considering South Africa’s climatic advantage, the fraction of electricity generated from renewable energy technologies is low.
The new federal government wants to supercharge state renewable targets. But financial headwinds pose real challenges to the rapid rollout.
Sometimes wind and solar power produce more electricity than the local grid can handle. Better energy storage and transmission could move extra energy to where it’s needed instead of shutting it off.
It’s time for a national grid that serves the public and meets the challenges of a warming world. A new government-owned and operated body should take control of Australia’s electricity system.
Australia has only scratched the surface of what’s possible when it comes to better managing energy demand.
Active government involvement in the electricity sector is necessary for Australia to meet its ambitious climate targets. But we shouldn’t totally abandon the power of market forces.
Australia’s energy market operator has suspended the National Electricity Market, due to a perfect storm of coal plants going offline and a spike in fossil fuel prices.
The 2012-2015 power crisis was the most intense, protracted and severe in the history of Ghana.
If South Africa fails to implement the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan, it will lead to the demise of Eskom as an energy producer as users turn to alternative electricity sources.
Millions of people will risk their health to afford heating and electricity in the months ahead.
Climate change is affecting hydropower in different ways across the country.
One species of eel can discharge 860 volts of electricity – that’s 200-fold higher than the top voltage of a single lithium-ion battery.
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Fellow at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
