Alan Pears
As battery and pumped hydro developers try to figure out the storage equation for Australia's grid, there is still not enough focus on demand management.
Climate
Gas
Renewables
Storage
Where does gas fit in our low carbon future? In an ever shrinking corner
We won’t completely shift from gas soon, but the amount of gas we need will decline. And the smarter, more innovative and more productive we are, the faster demand...
Coal
Governments
Renewables
Victorian Government
Victoria must do something about gas – but there are smarter options than digging for more
Victoria has a winter gas problem, but many smart solutions. Somehow, though, we end up bogged down in debates about gas exploration and LNG gas terminals. It's bizarre.
The gas industry marketing people chose an unfortunate example to promote its wares – cooking food.
Coronavirus
Renewables
Resource Efficiency
Smart Energy
Digitalisation lessons from industrial compressed air
Compressed air systems, often called ‘the fourth utility’ after electricity, gas and water and used in drying, assembly, blow moulding and paint spraying, are often shockingly inefficient.
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Coronavirus
Governments
Renewables
Our energy market was never fit for purpose, because it was obsessed only with price
Our electricity market was never fit for purpose, and the barriers to fundamental change are challenging and deeply ingrained in energy culture.
What happens beyond the immediate crisis will depend on how governments, business and households react. Here are some possibilities.
There is no longer time to take incremental action on climate change. What are the key actions policy makers must take in the next decade, and what’s needed to...
Climate
Coal
Governments
Insight
How energy and emission projections and scenarios distort climate debate
Scenarios and modelling is distorting the debate we need to have about energy and climate, and hiding what can be acheived.
Climate
Renewables
Resource Efficiency
Smart Energy
We’re not just shifting to a low carbon energy future
Powerful trends associated with low carbon economy are reframing work, business, politics and daily life.
