Australia’s main grid has 40,000 km of transmission lines. Building another 10,000 km quickly is proving hard.
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Transmission towers bent like soft plastic when extreme winds whipped through Victoria last week. Fixing it means asking hard questions.
Australia lags the US and Canada when it comes to involving Indigenous people in projects on their land. With the growth of renewable energy we have an opportunity to make a fresh start.
Power prices surged two years ago – and now are falling sharply. Why does it take so long to see relief?
We’re getting faster at building renewables – but we’ll have to speed up even more to reach our 2030 target of 82% clean energy
Without urgent action, Earth is heading for climate catastrophe. Yet there are reasons for hope in 2024 – including a possible peak in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Australia supported a phase-out of fossil fuels at the recent UN climate summit but is still expanding coal and gas production. It’s a contradiction that threatens the planet. There is a better way.
This year, China has built renewables at a truly staggering pace. But can its tech-first approach actually cut emissions – and find common ground at COP28?
Australia’s latest climate change statement shows we have little hope of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. There’s good news on the 2030 target, but then what?
Australian governments have invested a lot of hope in hydrogen to help drive the net zero transition, but concrete policies are urgently needed or we will lose our hydrogen advantage to other nations.
The Australian Labor government’s expanded Capacity Investment Scheme gives us a better chance of hitting high renewable energy targets. It’s not without risk but well worth the rewards.
It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C. Here’s how.
Nanoparticles can help address a dependency on platinum — a rare and expensive material — to generate clean power.
Storing energy in large pumped hydro schemes sounds simple. But engineering and terrain challenges have put Snowy 2.0 well off track – while grid-scale batteries get better and better
We’ve wasted a lot of time delaying climate action. As the damage becomes ever clearer, it’s time to accelerate the transition.
Tandem solar cells promise to revolutionise the clean energy transition – but a shortage of materials means they must urgently be redesigned.
Our research has found 30,000 farm dams which could be used as energy storage. Solar by day, hydro by night.
The demand for the minerals needed to build clean energy technology currently exceeds the available supply. If this issue continues, governments may find it hard to reach their clean energy targets.
Our carbon budget is shrinking fast. We crunched the data to find pathways for G20 nations to act faster
Deep sea metallic nodules could help us shift to clean energy. But we don’t know how much damage it will do to ecosystems
Top contributors
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University
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Senior research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, Deakin University