What a year it’s been for fans of energy politics. And 12 months after the blackout, the policy heat is still being generated.
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Victoria’s plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.
Western Australia has huge amounts of sunshine and wind, yet only 7% of its energy comes from renewables. What’s more, most households in the poorest suburbs are still locked out of the solar panel boom.
A panel of leading economists has given its majority verdict on Alan Finkel’s proposed Clean Energy Target: it may not be the best possible emissions policy, but we should get on with it anyway.
Estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that the number of direct full-time equivalent jobs in renewable energy activities has continued to fall from its 2011-12 peak.
The goals are clear: clean, cheap, reliable energy. But no-one can agree how we get there.
In the absence of strong federal action on climate change, many states have developed their own climate and energy policies.
The electricity network can be used proactively to meet Australia’s climate and renewable energy targets.
Germany’s energy transition is often held up as an incredible success story. So what can Australia learn?
Whatever our electricity grid looks like in the future, it will need to be reliable.
The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s – years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.
New research has found that carbon intensive companies have lost focus on reducing emissions under Direct Action, when compared with the carbon tax.
Many households in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria will lose their subsidies for solar power this year.
Australia’s energy policy has lost its way over the past couple of decades, which is unfortunate because the challenges – to move to a low-carbon economy without high prices – have never been tougher.
The federal election campaign has highlighted the very different visions of Australia’s renewable energy future held by the major parties.
The ups and downs of climate policy since the 2013 federal election.
Victoria has announced a renewable energy target of 40% by 2025.
There’s a wealth of climate policies to choose from this election – but what will they do electricity prices?
Over the past year Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from electricity rose 2.7%.
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Joint director, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, and Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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University of Southern Queensland
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University
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Emeritus professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne