Rachel Williamson, Author at Renew Economy

Rachel Williamson

Contributor

Rachel Williamson is a science and business journalist, who focuses on climate change-related health and environmental issues.

Policy & Planning

Carbon credits serve to greenwash business-as-usual, says TAI, won’t cut emissions
Carbon credits distract policymakers from concrete actions that actually bring down emissions, TAI submission argues.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 17, 2022

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Solar

Renewables juggernaut Quinbrook flips stake in US solar and battery project
Quinbrook sells minority stake in huge Nevada project to Netherlands largest pension fund, hot on heels of another renewables deal where it doubled its money.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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Hydrogen

FFI and Sparc get go-ahead to pilot cutting edge hydrogen electroysis plant
Sparc, Fortescue Future Industries and the University of Adelaide to start scoping work on pilot renewable hydrogen plant based on positive modelling.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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GM buys into Aussie battery metals refiner to secure EV and home energy growth
GM has bought into Queensland Pacific Metals to secure its battery metal supply chain, and is launching a home energy management system to rival Tesla.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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Solar

WA mine switches to solar in race to produce battery-grade lithium
The Earl Grey Lithium Project – one of largest undeveloped deposits in Australia – is set to add 12MW of solar to deliver about 25% of its energy needs.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 12, 2022

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Solar

Farmers keen to embrace solar, but hamstrung by export limits
Future farmers should be energy traders as well as animal or crop growers, but Australia needs new policy settings to get there.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 11, 2022

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Markets

Bowen tackles carbon market reform with new look Safeguard Mechanism – but is it enough?
Proposed reforms will swap ACCUs for the new credit, but now they’ll only be granted if the emitter can get under their new baseline emissions level.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 10, 2022

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Renewables

FFI taps former chief NT minister to lead green charge in Top End
Micael Gunner will lead FFI’s new Darwin-based team, but will bring a legacy of support for “atrocious” polluting gas projects.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 10, 2022

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Investor group slams ESB as too slow on transmission access reform
Clean Energy Investor Group says Energy Security Board’s slow progress on electricity network transmission access reform is choking investment in renewables.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 7, 2022

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An EV charging station every 12km? Fossil fuel subsidies could pay for that
A new report asks what we could get for the $11.6 billion Australia spent on fossil fuel subsidies last year. The low emissions options are endless.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 7, 2022

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Markets

A flight to quality, as carbon traders hedge against a tightening of rules
A mixed quarter of trading shaped by the announcement of the Chubb ERF review and the federal government’s plan to reform the Safeguard Mechanism.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 6, 2022

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Hydrogen

Critical hydrogen skills shortage could threaten emissions goals
Australia has neither the skilled workers nor the training capacity to achieve its ambitious renewable hydrogen plans, a new report has found.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 6, 2022

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