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Natural gas supplies are growing, but so are other markets for it besides power generation.
Solar photovoltaics and wind power are on track to supplant fossil-fuel-based electricity generation by the 2030s. The only thing holding back the renewable revolution is politics.
US military bases usually get their electricity from the civilian grid, which is vulnerable to attack and to disaster. Solar-powered microgrids could protect national security, and would save money.
Victoria's plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.
The centralised regulation of electric power in Nigeria is stalling progress in the sector. To achieve stable power supply, the country must obey its constitution and decentralise regulation.
Solar PV and wind energy have overtaken coal as the leading sources of new electricity generation worldwide, with falling prices and new storage technologies making clean energy ever more attainable.
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Energy/Electricity Law, University of Lagos
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Professor of Industrial Engineering , Iowa State University
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China Research Coordinator and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tufts University
