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New research has found that clean tech has much better prospects in the U.S., while oil and gas firms in Canada may outlast their American counterparts.
New charts and data show how corporate demand could boost clean energy investment in regions where renewable energy potential is strong but wind and solar power have lagged.
Small modular reactors are popular among conservative politicians and supposedly the Australian public. But they’re nowhere near ready to power Australia in time to replace coal-powered stations.
Extreme winds from thunderstorms have downed transmission towers from Victoria to Western Australia in recent years. What’s going on?
Recent research about energy industry restructuring options for a green transition indicates that innovation in renewable energy positively influences GDP.
Australia’s main grid has 40,000 km of transmission lines. Building another 10,000 km quickly is proving hard.
Transmission towers bent like soft plastic when extreme winds whipped through Victoria last week. Fixing it means asking hard questions.
Australia lags the US and Canada when it comes to involving Indigenous people in projects on their land. With the growth of renewable energy we have an opportunity to make a fresh start.
Power prices surged two years ago – and now are falling sharply. Why does it take so long to see relief?
We’re getting faster at building renewables – but we’ll have to speed up even more to reach our 2030 target of 82% clean energy
Without urgent action, Earth is heading for climate catastrophe. Yet there are reasons for hope in 2024 – including a possible peak in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Australia supported a phase-out of fossil fuels at the recent UN climate summit but is still expanding coal and gas production. It’s a contradiction that threatens the planet. There is a better way.
This year, China has built renewables at a truly staggering pace. But can its tech-first approach actually cut emissions – and find common ground at COP28?
Australia’s latest climate change statement shows we have little hope of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. There’s good news on the 2030 target, but then what?
Australian governments have invested a lot of hope in hydrogen to help drive the net zero transition, but concrete policies are urgently needed or we will lose our hydrogen advantage to other nations.
The Australian Labor government’s expanded Capacity Investment Scheme gives us a better chance of hitting high renewable energy targets. It’s not without risk but well worth the rewards.
It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C. Here’s how.
Nanoparticles can help address a dependency on platinum — a rare and expensive material — to generate clean power.
Storing energy in large pumped hydro schemes sounds simple. But engineering and terrain challenges have put Snowy 2.0 well off track – while grid-scale batteries get better and better
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Senior research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Co-Founder at Relectrify | Graduated PhD in Battery Storage, The University of Melbourne
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William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
