Tim Buckley, Author at Renew Economy

Tim Buckley

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Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets from both a buy and sell side perspective.

Renewables

Australia’s renewable superpower ambitions could be turbo-charged by Biden compact
US-Australia compact promises to massively boost our potential as a global renewables superpower and zero-emissions trade and investment leader.
Tim Buckley

May 22, 2023

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Developing new gas projects is 100 per cent the wrong answer
Labor’s retrograde pandering to the tax-avoiding multinational gas cartel is almost as counterproductive as the “gas-led recovery” brain-fart of the previous government.
Tim Buckley

May 17, 2023

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Policy & Planning

Labor’s budget is good for climate and renewables – and great for the gas cartel
The Labor budget lacks ambition to leverage massive decarbonisation opportunities – and fails to deliver substantial social dividends through gas tax reform.
Tim Buckley

May 10, 2023

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Policy & Planning

For a 1.5°C aligned electricity sector we need capital – and for capital, we need policy
Australian governments must do all they can to crowd-in private capital at the scale and speed required to deliver on our energy and climate objectives.
Tim Buckley

Apr 12, 2023

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EU piles pressure on Australia to seize once-in-a-century cleantech opportunity
Australia’s trade partners – China, US, India, Japan and the EU – are making strategic public interventions at massive scale. Australia must act or lose out.
Tim Buckley

Mar 17, 2023

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There is no “gas shortage,” just a shortage of ethics and integrity from the gas cartel
We know the solution to the energy crisis, and it is not to pander to demands from the war-profiteering gas cartel to create new supply.
Tim Buckley

Mar 16, 2023

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Renewables

Grid operator needs to dial in EVs to support huge pipeline of wind, solar and storage
EVs will play a key role in balancing supply and demand on the main grid, even assuming only 10-20% of this mobile battery bank can be utilised daily.
Tim Buckley

Feb 21, 2023

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Coal

Adani: Are we witnessing a corporate Hindenburg?
These are interesting times for the previously teflon-coated coal tycoon Gautam Adani and his hydra-like empire. The world is watching.
Tim Buckley

Feb 10, 2023

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Renewables

Our climate challenge is our greatest opportunity: So how do we get it right?
Our response to climate change provides perhaps the greatest opportunity for investment, economic, export and employment growth Australia has ever seen. Can we harness it?
Tim Buckley

Feb 1, 2023

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AEMO report confirms wind and solar best cure for fossil fuel hyper-inflation
Coal and gas are in a long structural terminal decline, renewables are booming and pushing expensive, unreliable, polluting fossil fuels out of the market.
Tim Buckley

Jan 25, 2023

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Storage

The new year will be all about grid firming as Australia rejoins race to renewables
We leave 2022 with a new policy clarity and momentum in the shift to renewables. The vital role of energy firming – including from batteries on wheels – is the next frontier.
Tim Buckley

Dec 21, 2022

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Storage

Adults are back in the room, with policy that paves the way for cheaper electricity
Storage mechanism paves way for grid decarbonisation at the speed and scale required as we leave behind our unreliable, ultra-expensive thermal power fleet.
Tim Buckley

Dec 9, 2022

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