South Australia’s wind energy has been caught in a storm since last week’s blackout, but what do we really know?
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In the wake of South Australia’s blackout, politicians have blamed renewables for decreasing the state’s energy security.
The mid-latitude cyclone with no name that hit South Australia last week, spawning two tornadoes and 80,000 electricity strikes, destroyed 22 massive transmission towers carrying electricity across the…
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.
On September 27, 1956, an atomic mushroom cloud rose above the Maralinga plain - the first of seven British bomb tests. Why was Australia so keen to put UK military interests ahead of its own people?
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.
New analysis shows low-income earners, particularly in Tasmania and South Australia, face the most mortgage stress.
The electricity market that covers most of Australia is designed to have periods of high prices, to attract new generators. But there may be better ways to encourage electricity investment.
How do you choose local produce when buying fish, which is caught in vast oceans by a globalised industry? Answer: with great difficulty.
The key battleground of South Australia has been inundated during the campaign with regular visits from both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten.
Closure of the state’s last coal power station will leave a potential gap in the electricity supply.
South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended a nuclear waste site for the state.
Like oil and water, party politics and good defence policy are presumed not to mix. And the process to buy Australia’s next fleet of submarines has been all about party politics.
Any job losses from Arrium’s Whyalla Steelworks would be another blow to the manufacturing sector and South Australia’s economy.
We don’t know how much it would cost to store nuclear waste in Australia - or how much other countries would be willing to pay.
Offering permanent storage for the world’s nuclear waste could open up a huge economic opportunity for Australia.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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