Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
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States take the lead on regulation of planning, site selection, leasing and other elements of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes, though the federal government has a role as well.
Gas-fired power plants can keep energy reliable and affordable. But they should be used only when absolutely necessary.
Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids - and they could be a game-changer.
The only way to make nuclear power work in Australia is to unplug cheap renewables. Stop exporting electricity from rooftop solar system. Forget feed-in tarrifs. Everyone use baseload nuclear first.
Capping the wholesale gas price is a poor attempt to decouple the domestic market from the volatile international market. The only sure way forward is a domestic reservation policy for the east coast.
Australia’s governments have agreed to impose caps on the wholesale domestic price of coal and gas. How much it will help is debatable.
Green-lighting new gas projects is a code red for the Great Barrier Reef. But a new landmark federal court case may stop the Scarborough offshore gas project in its tracks.
Labor wants to run the Kurri Kurri gas power station on green hydrogen. But the figures don’t stack up.
Government-owned firms are often branded as uncompetitive, stuck in the past and unable to truly innovate. But they’re sometimes better suited than private firms to drive new, clean technologies.
The government has unveiled a $1.9 billion package of investments in new and emerging technologies, and reinforced its message that it is time to move on from assisting now commercially-viable renewables.
Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Head of Sustainable Finance Hub, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Ariel Liebman Director, Monash Energy Institute and Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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A/Prof and Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University
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Professor and Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Interim Assistant Director, Center for Water Policy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University