Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
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Retail power prices are set to fall, as renewables pile in – even though transmission costs are rising.
Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, we need to optimise the build.
The equipment needed to keep the grid running is hard to make, and materials are limited. And supply-chain bottlenecks are taking years to clear.
Solar and wind farms make power very cheaply. But power bills are still climbing because we underestimated other costs, from transmission to storage.
Energy storage really is the special sauce that makes renewables work anytime, anywhere – and everywhere. This makes the most of the existing electricity network, including transmission lines.
Choosing speed above all else gets clean energy built. But it comes with risks. Which path should Australia take?
Australia desperately needs skilled workers and materials to build transmission infrastructure and keep the energy transition on track.
The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far.
Keeping the lights on in Australia is not an easy task – and adding nuclear to the mix would add new complications.
Public ownership is back in vogue, after the Coalition promised publicly owned nuclear plants in a decade. The problem is, the public service has been hollowed out.
There’s no mention of nuclear in Australia’s latest energy transition roadmap – because our energy market operator can only model power sources legal in Australia.
No, it’s not a problem that some renewable power doesn’t make it to the grid. Here’s why
Yes we need land for solar panels, wind farms, batteries, pumped hydro, transmission lines and so on. But the amount of land is surprisingly small, when you do the sums. Here’s why.
The energy transition could be scuppered by community scepticism. Communities have to see the benefits.
Transmission towers bent like soft plastic when extreme winds whipped through Victoria last week. Fixing it means asking hard questions.
Australians want government to act on climate change, but not necessarily now, or in their neighbourhood. How can governments resolve this dilemma?
If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma?
Of all Australia’s climate policies, the Renewable Energy Target has been the most effective. Why have Australian governments moved away from it, and how can they revive it?
Australia’s grid will likely get through this angry summer without falling to pieces. But our market operator is worried about the summers after that.
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, University of Port Harcourt
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Deputy Director, Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor of Public Affairs, Indiana University
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Grattan Institute
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Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
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Sustainable Economies Lead, Climateworks Centre