The U.S. is poised to sunset more coal plants under the current direction.
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What are the crucial energy and climate policy questions facing the next president? Our academics weigh in.
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New technologies that can help us to meet climate change targets are struggling to see the light of day. Incentives need to be fixed, and carbon pricing is at the heart of the matter.
Wind farms are pushing down the price of electricity in the electricity market.
Chris J Stewart, Starfish Wind Farm, Cape Jervis, South Australia.
South Australia’s recent blackout raised questions about the role of wind energy in Australia’s electricity network.
Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow.
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Just when you thought wind farms were bad for house prices everywhere, a new piece of research from Scotland suggests otherwise.
Solar jobs now outnumber coal jobs in U.S. Is that reason enough for government policies to promote clean energy?
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Will government policy to promote clean energy be disastrous or a boon? A close look at the 2009 stimulus, which plowed $90 billion into energy, can tell us a lot.
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Wind and solar power can be intermittent. Should our usage be too?
Australia has some of the world’s best ocean energy resources.
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Australia has the world’s largest wave energy resource – so how do we unlock our ocean’s potential?
Queensland’s got a long way to go to meet its renewable target.
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Queensland currently gets 7% of it’s electricity from renewable sources - but is aiming for 50% by 2030.
Solar power generation is experiencing rapid growth.
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Renewable energy could be considered a central part of Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation ‘ideas boom’.
Australa’s electricity network is going through a period of major transformation.
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Australia’s electricity market will be reviewed over the next six months, following South Australia’s state-wide blackout.
Police direct traffic in South Australia’s blackout.
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South Australia’s wind energy has been caught in a storm since last week’s blackout, but what do we really know?
South Australia’s wind energy is providing secure energy to the state.
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In the wake of South Australia’s blackout, politicians have blamed renewables for decreasing the state’s energy security.
After storms left parts of South Australia without power, the government was quick out of the blocks to question the high use of renewable energy in that state.
Christopher Pyne, Malcolm Turnbull and Steven Marshall have all spoken out on renewables in South Australia.
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Storage is the issue politicians must deal with if we are to transition away from coal and gas based power generation.
Malcolm Turnbull said what happened in South Australia should be a ‘wake-up call’.
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Maybe it was because he was in Tasmania and somewhat out of things. Or perhaps he was so intent on the political point he was able to make that he didn’t think the situation through. For whatever reason…
Malcolm Turnbull speaking at the University of Tasmania’s School of Architecture and Design on Thursday.
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Malcolm Turnbull has seized on the massive South Australian power failure to condemn Labor states for aggressive attitudes to renewables and call for a nationwide target.
Adelaide goes dark after wild storms caused the entire state’s power to fail.
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South Australia is recovering from a state-wide blackout, and fingers are pointing at the state’s renewable energy industry and climate change.
Yes, climate change came up during the debate but there was little substantive discussion of energy or environment.
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Trump is following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps by pushing against regulations, but in the 1980s, it only awakened the public to environmental concerns.
Small power generators like solar panels take pressure off the electricity grid.
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The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
South Australia is leading the way on wind energy - but that’s posing problems for the electricity sector.
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South Australia’s electricity price shock in July showed that Australia hasn’t worked out how to put large amounts of wind energy into the grid.