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South Australia’s recent blackout raised questions about the role of wind energy in Australia’s electricity network.
Just when you thought wind farms were bad for house prices everywhere, a new piece of research from Scotland suggests otherwise.
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.
Wind and solar power can be intermittent. Should our usage be too?
Australia has the world’s largest wave energy resource – so how do we unlock our ocean’s potential?
Queensland currently gets 7% of it’s electricity from renewable sources - but is aiming for 50% by 2030.
Renewable energy could be considered a central part of Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation ‘ideas boom’.
Australia’s electricity market will be reviewed over the next six months, following South Australia’s state-wide blackout.
South Australia’s wind energy has been caught in a storm since last week’s blackout, but what do we really know?
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.
Storage is the issue politicians must deal with if we are to transition away from coal and gas based power generation.
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 has seized on the massive South Australian power failure to condemn Labor states for aggressive attitudes to renewables and call for a nationwide target.
South Australia is recovering from a state-wide blackout, and fingers are pointing at the state’s renewable energy industry and climate change.
Trump is following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps by pushing against regulations, but in the 1980s, it only awakened the public to environmental concerns.
The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
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.
Victoria’s brown coal Hazelwood station produces 5% of Australia’s electricity, and 3% of the country’s carbon emissions.
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
