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For the first time, Australia has moved to cap natural gas prices in a bid to stop energy price pain. Is the cap too high – or was it necessary to mollify the producers?
Energy bills are about to hurt. But what can the government actually do to ease the pain?
There never was a ‘maximum bill of £2,500’.
Truss heads off imminent crisis while storing up problems for the long term.
Coal plants are exiting the grid faster than expected. We’ll need to redouble efforts to add flexibility into our energy systems and build renewables and storage.
The energy crisis is hitting the east coast hard. But Western Australia is sailing through – because of government intervention in the market.
Australia’s energy market operator has suspended the National Electricity Market, due to a perfect storm of coal plants going offline and a spike in fossil fuel prices.
Eraring is the latest in a string of announcements for early coal plant closures. The fundamental reason is the brutal impact of renewables on coal’s profitability.
Here are four ways the current electricity system favours existing, higher emitting technologies. These must be overcome to rapidly cut Australia’s emissions.
The new commitments of state governments go some way to filling the void left by the lack of a national climate policy. The states should, and can, coordinate their efforts. Here’s how.
The assassination of the Iranian general could have lasting effects on energy markets. Which countries could benefit from it and which could be negatively affected?
The next 20 years of Britain’s electricity policy must look very different from the previous 20.
Energy companies offer thousands of different prices, making finding the best deal all but impossible.
Digitalisation and better energy storage are reshaping the electricity market.
‘Virtual power plants’ offer extra power to the grid by tweaking the operation of batteries and appliances right across the network. But even this might be too blunt a tool for our future energy needs.
Two moves by the Trump administration signal a dramatic shift in energy policy to favor coal and nuclear, but markets forces and legal challenges mean changes could take years.
Western Australia has huge amounts of sunshine and wind, yet only 7% of its energy comes from renewables. What’s more, most households in the poorest suburbs are still locked out of the solar panel boom.
An America that drills more, and imports less, could mean Opec no longer gets to call the shots.
A major report on why energy bills are so expensive was published the day after the vote for Brexit.
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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, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Policy, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, Sociology, Lancaster University
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, UCL
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Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh and Research Coordinator, UK Energy Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh
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Professorial Fellow, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
