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Transmission towers bent like soft plastic when extreme winds whipped through Victoria last week. Fixing it means asking hard questions.
Australians want government to act on climate change, but not necessarily now, or in their neighbourhood. How can governments resolve this dilemma?
If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma?
Of all Australia’s climate policies, the Renewable Energy Target has been the most effective. Why have Australian governments moved away from it, and how can they revive it?
Australia’s grid will likely get through this angry summer without falling to pieces. But our market operator is worried about the summers after that.
We’ll need some new transmission lines to make Australia’s grid ready for the green energy shift. But there are clever ways of making more use out of our existing network.
After a decade of climate wars, Australia is suddenly united – with state, territory and federal goverments aiming for net zero by 2050 for the first time
Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed more than 200 times since 2010, regularly resulting in widespread blackouts.
Most Americans support clean energy in principle, but what will they do when wind turbines or high-voltage transmission lines come to town?
Electricity emissions can be cut to net-zero while keeping the lights on and prices down. But achieving that quickly means keeping gas around, for now.
The US electricity grid is actually five regional grids, and it’s hard to share power between them. A macrogrid could bridge the gaps, making electricity cheaper and more reliable.
Due to inefficiencies in global energy systems, energy falls short of even making it to the consumer, often lost in the form of waste heat.
Studies suggest electrosensitivity is a “communicated” disease, spread by people hearing about the alleged dangers, and sometimes worrying themselves sick.
The U.S. could dramatically increase solar and wind power without expensive energy storage. The key is to overlay high-voltage direct current power lines on our system of regional grids.
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Research Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology / Life Cycle Assessment, McGill University
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
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Grattan Institute
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Sustainable Economies Lead, Climateworks Centre
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
