Costing new sources of electricity sounds simple. But it’s enormously complicated – and CSIRO’s GenCost report promises certainty it cannot deliver
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Plus, a better way to decarbonise the power sector.
The 1909 incident may have cost the industry decades of progress – and the planet huge amounts of damaging carbon emissions.
An economist explains coal power’s rise and fall in charts.
Canada must move away from using fossil fuels, but a transition that comes too fast could harm the economy. Policy-makers must strike a balance between energy security and economic growth.
How economic thinking on climate change has evolved since the 2006 Stern Review.
Energy storage could prove an inexpensive way for power companies to handle heat waves and other times when consumers use more electricity than usual.
Advanced small modular reactors, known as SMRs, will probably have many advantages over older technology. But it’s not yet known how they will stack up against other sources of electricity.
Nuclear power provides 60 percent of US carbon-free electricity generation, but existing plants are aging and only one is under construction. Should government intervene to keep nuclear energy in the mix?
The French president said he would eliminate all coal-fired plants in his country by 2021, while his US counterpart is pushing policies intended to make them more profitable. Either way, the laws of economics will win.
To see why, one must only consider the core economic principle of supply and demand.
BP’s Energy Outlook report forecast an increase in fossil fuel use by a third. That would make it difficult to keep warming below 2C.
Following President Lázaro Cárdenas’ expropriation of foreign oil company assets in 1938, the oil industry has been a symbol of Mexican sovereignty. This made the state oil firm Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex…
We’ve just been through an unusually mild winter for the UK. Despite the excessive rain and storms, the warmer temperatures meant we’ve needed less energy to heat our homes. This has reduced household…
Not In My Back Yard, or NIMBY-ism as it is known, is one thing, but the prospect of fracking for shale gas in rock deep underground has thrown up a new type of protest: Not Under My Back Yard. Following…
Britain’s energy-hungry population is highly dependent on oil and gas, which powers around two thirds of the UK’s energy needs. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) projects that by 2030…
Energy-generating solar panels provide the opportunity to generate low-carbon electricity from the roof over your head, at a cost that has fallen dramatically and continues to slide. So many governments…
While a privatised energy market has delivered stable and cost-effective electricity to Britain’s national grid for 25 years, the world and the pressures it faces are changing. A group of Newcastle University…
Building serious infrastructure – such as energy supply, energy distribution, road and rail – is a big undertaking. It takes a long time to build, but an even longer time to plan and to generate enough…
The big energy policy headline in the budget was well trailed. As expected, the level of the UK’s carbon tax on electricity generation will be frozen from 2016/17 until the end of this decade. Conceived…
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Durham University
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Research Assistant, Australian-German College of Climate and Energy Transitions, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Energy Systems and Data Group, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Lecturer, Research Fellow at City University London, Harvard University
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Mervin Bovaird Professor of Energy Business and Finance (retired), University of Tulsa
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