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Australia is running a data deficit – on EVs and the energy shift – and everyone pays the price
Australia has been accumulating a data deficit, cutting the science and statistics infrastructure that underpins evidence-based planning. EVs are the prime example.
Ray Wills & Peter Newman
Jul 17, 2026
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Commentary
Winter can bring you new energy: Install a small power station and interrogate your bills
Winter exposes the weak points in Australia’s homes: leaky rentals, inefficient heaters, expensive tariffs and long car commutes. Here is what you can change.
Ray Wills, Peter Newman & Alan Pears
May 11, 2026
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How do you manage inflation when it’s driven by climate disasters and overseas fuel shocks?
Recent reforms have updated the Reserve Bank’s wiring, but left it running 20th Century software in a 21st Century climate system – and last week’s rate rise shows it.
Peter Newman and Ray Wills
Mar 23, 2026
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Policy & Planning
What fossil madness is this? Wars can’t interrupt flow of wind and the sun, but all we hear is drill, baby, drill
Australia is in the grip of a global fossil fuel crisis. It knows it has better and cleaner options, but does it have the courage to seize them?
Giles Parkinson
Mar 20, 2026
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Commentary
Seize the day: Time to let solar “daylight saving” in batteries reduce our costs in Australia
Well-designed reforms are needed to accelerate the shift away from the exposure to oil and gas. If we get the settings right, future price shocks will be the exception, not the rule.
Peter Newman and Ray Wills
Apr 2, 2026
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Australia has already passed gas – the market is just updating its paperwork
The latest gas market outlook is less of a temporary supply-gap reprieve and more the start of the fastest energy transition in history, underpinned by electrification.
Peter Newman and Ray Wills
Mar 27, 2026
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A new oil refinery commissioned in the mid-2030s is just burning money that makes emissions
Isn’t there something better that we should be doing than ensuring we have full tanks of diesel and petrol? The reform task isn’t storing more oil — it’s exiting it.
Ray Wills & Peter Newman
Aug 3, 2026
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Commentary
The real risk in Australia’s energy transition isn’t going too fast – it’s going too slow
The transition is going to happen. Our choice is whether we design rules around consumers and new technology, or cling to a model built for coal and gas that will soon be irrelevant.
Ray Wills & Peter Newman
Jun 26, 2026
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Commentary
Fortescue accelerates away from oil: doing what Australia should be doing on the fuel crisis
Fortescue is showing the future to the rest of Australia: Batteries and electrification replacing barrels and diesel, backed by firmed renewables rather than gas and oil.
Ray Wills & Peter Newman
Apr 10, 2026
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Chart of the day
Gas is being squeezed by renewables – every 30 minutes
Two new charts reveal distinct dynamics in Australia’s main grids, highlighting the diminishing role of gas even in short-term operations.
Peter Newman and Ray Wills
Feb 2, 2026
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Commentary
Australia’s battery revolution is pushing gas out of the grid support business
Australia’s most isolated grid is showing the world how the net zero transition will put gas out of the grid support business.
Peter Newman and Ray Wills
Dec 11, 2025
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Solar subsidies: who needs them?
Continuously falling PV prices mean that, by the end of next year, subsidies for solar will no longer be needed to drive rooftop installations.
Ray Wills
Jun 27, 2012
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