Rolling out a new program to encourage electric hot water could slash household costs and cut emissions.
- Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
The rapid shift in our electricity system calls for a huge increase in the workforce needed to construct, operate and maintain it. Urgent action on building up this workforce is needed.
Australia desperately needs skilled workers and materials to build transmission infrastructure and keep the energy transition on track.
Our new report makes 12 recommendations for how industry, government, educators and First Nations communities can create jobs and fulfilling careers in clean energy.
Rather than paying ageing power stations to stay open in the transition to renewable energy, demand flexibility is cheaper and cleaner way to ensure the system has enough capacity.
We’ll need to almost double our electricity sector workforce to build renewables as quickly as we need to. Where will the workers come from amid a skills shortage and infrastructure boom?
Australia is already in the grip of a skills shortage. We’re going to have to solve that before we can start on the big renewables build.
Five ‘renewable energy zones’ planned for NSW represent a major opportunity for Aboriginal people.
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.
More than ten offshore wind farms are currently proposed for Australia. If built, their combined capacity would be greater than all coal-fired power plants in the nation.
Yallourn power station, Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal plant, will close four years ahead of schedule. Without a national policy, coal workers are left dangerously exposed.
Some coal workers have the right skills and work in the right location to get a job in renewables. But many, such as semi-skilled machine operators, cannot.
Beberapa negara penghasil batu bara, seperti Jerman dan Spanyol, sedang melakukan paket transisi utama yang adil. Namun, negara-negara lain kurang berhasil.
Australia hasn’t done much planning to prepare for the shift away from coal. But it’s not too late to learn from international experiences.
Making the transition to a sustainable energy future also means ensuring that affected communities - such as Australia’s coal workers - aren’t left by the wayside.
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