Australia’s power problem

Are blackouts really looming by the middle of this decade? An AEMO report warns they might be – but there are plenty of projects on the drawing board that will help ease the squeeze on the grid.

Cracking the hydrogen problem

Researchers have developed a cheaper and more energy-efficient way to make hydrogen directly from seawater, in a critical step towards a truly viable green hydrogen industry.

There lies the rub

A new material designed to harvest up to 400 times more energy from movement than currently possible has potential applications in biomedicine and geospatial monitoring.

How to quit coal

How do nations turn the rhetoric of the transition to clean energy into reality while sustaining economic prosperity and maintaining popular and political support?

An ill wind

Australians may be struggling with high energy costs, but global spikes in energy prices have proved a boon for the nation’s economy.

Running on empty

Many of Australia’s supply chains continue to be tested in the wake of the pandemic and our precarious liquid fuel arrangements offer a case in point.

Dethroning king coal

When will coal power plants close in Australia, what forms of electricity generation will replace them, how much will it cost, and who will pay for the transition?

Energy companies cash in while consumers suffer

Australian electricity customers have overpaid $10 billion to energy network providers pocketing supernormal profits. Coordinated government action is therefore required to urgently improve the regulations governing monopoly electricity networks to reduce growing pressure on consumer’s energy bills.

Dethroning king coal

Australian governments should begin planning for a faster-than-expected transition away from thermal coal, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Russia’s war renews the push for renewables

Europe’s revulsion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have accelerated the global transition to renewable energy.

Gas flows under pressure

The Australian Greens don’t yet seem to grasp that effective environmental stewardship depends on corresponding progress in justice, public health, education, trade, security, indigenous and international relations, social and economic wellbeing.

The sun also rises

CSIRO’s annual GenCost report confirms wind and solar are the cheapest source of electricity generation and storage in Australia.