Tristan Edis, Author at Renew Economy

Tristan Edis

Contributor

Tristan Edis is the Director – Analysis and Advisory at Green Energy Markets. Tristan’s involvement in the clean energy sector and related government climate change and energy policy issues began back in 2000.

Renewables

How to ensure Bowen’s underwriting scheme doesn’t create another Snowy 2.0 debacle
Federal Labor’s move to underwrite 32GW of renewables and storage is nothing short revolutionary. But abandoning market-based mechanisms carries its own serious risks.
Tristan Edis

Nov 23, 2023

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Policy & Planning

We must not let big emitters greenwash their emissions with renewables free kick
We can’t afford to give free kicks to heavy emitters, especially when Australia needs all the help it can get to reach 82% renewables by 2030.
Tristan Edis

Oct 20, 2023

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Storage

Want energy democracy? Paying networks to install community batteries is not the way
Good intentions around community batteries are being hijacked by monopoly businesses, while the best route to energy equality is staring governments in the face.
Tristan Edis

Sep 28, 2023

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Policy & Planning

Four steps to resolve the Labor‐Greens safeguard standoff and close loopholes
As important as the Safeguard Mechanism is, the reality is Labor’s bill doesn’t yet properly deliver on its climate commitments. Here’s how to fix that.
Tristan Edis

Mar 23, 2023

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More than 5GW of new wind and solar committed to construction in record breaking 2022
Australian renewable energy industry broke through another milestone in 2022, commencing construction on over 5GW of wind and solar farms.
Tristan Edis

Feb 13, 2023

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Markets

What is the real cause of our energy crisis – and what should we do?
There are several things we can do to address the energy crisis, but a capacity mechanism is not one of them.
Tristan Edis

Jun 7, 2022

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Markets

Collapse in Queensland renewables investment – the canary in the coal mine
In 2019 construction commitments to large wind and solar farms in Queensland completely dried-up, killing more than 1,000 jobs along the way.
Tristan Edis

Dec 19, 2019

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Coal

This is no time for energy ministers to panic over reliability standards
An unlikely alliance of the federal minister and his Victoria counter-part pushes for Australia’s reliability standard to be tightened further. It makes no sense.
Tristan Edis

Nov 21, 2019

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Policy & Planning

The real world versus the Coalition’s scare campaign
Coalition ministers have been keen to promote the results from BAEconomics’ theoretical modelling exercise, but ignoring what is happening in the real world.
Tristan Edis

May 17, 2019

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Renewables

Call this a scare campaign? It’s nothing compared to what we will see, post election
If you think a Labor win will end the climate and renewables scare campaign, think again. But there’s hope, in the form of a new, open economic modelling platform.
Tristan Edis

Apr 11, 2019

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Renewables

It took just two summers for renewables to replace Hazelwood
Over just two summers, both the amount of energy lost since Hazelwood’s closure, and the capacity it provided during peak demand, have been replaced largely by wind and solar.
Tristan Edis

Mar 29, 2019

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Renewables

2018: The year fossil fuels began their inexorable decline
Renewable energy broke through the 20% market share threshold in 2018, for the first time since the 1970s. Meanwhile, coal and gas generation continued to fall.
Tristan Edis

Feb 7, 2019

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