As prices surge, the Middle East crisis highlights New Zealand’s exposure to global oil – and the need to accelerate more resilient alternatives.
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Eskom’s plans to cut power to 14 indebted municipalities expose a deepening crisis in South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider.
New Zealand’s electricity generation now accounts for only 5% of emissions, but oil use in transport is on the rise, outweighing the shift to electric vehicles.
US consumers, already feeling pain at the gas pump, can expect higher prices and prolonged shortages for goods of all sorts, including food, as additional consequences of slowed oil production.
Nations’ stores of petroleum can dampen price shocks in the short term, but as reserve supplies dwindle, economic pain may continue.
Israel and Iran have both attacked critical energy infrastructure sites. So what does this mean for energy prices here in Australia, and around the world?
Past crises show heavy state intervention can backfire – what should New Zealand do differently this time?
Iran has responded in kind to attacks on its energy infrastructure. With the energy assets of Gulf states now in play for Tehran, regional chaos grows by the hour.
Iran’s attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure are part of a broader strategy the regime in Tehran has employed to try and ensure its survival.
There’s lots of copper in the ground, but demand is already outstripping usable supply – and the shortfall is likely to get worse.
A new study linking Pittsburgh’s air pollution to thousands of deaths each year has been published just as the EPA moves to weaken pollution standards.
The next big innovations will centre on energy efficiency.
‘Dirty fuel’ may sound scary. But here’s why we’re unlikely to see a wave of new disease with this temporary lift in sulfur levels.
In quantum batteries, subunits take collective action to charge faster.
Gas from Mozambique is running out, leaving South African industry facing a supply crisis. Imported propane gas could offer a workable solution.
As fuel prices rise, some remote communities feel the shock twice: first at the pump and then in the power supply.
Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.
Governments in Australia and New Zealand aren’t sitting idle in the face of spiking fuel prices. Here’s what they’re doing – and what might make a difference
Is it time to panic about supplies?
Kenya’s electricity instability is not one problem – it’s an interaction between network capacity and system reliability.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Lecturer in International Studies, University of Washington
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor in Sustainability, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University