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Renewables

Report: Near-total renewable energy systems cheaper than gas in 2030
Climate Policy Initiative stresses flexibility and shows how energy storage and limited gas generation can support a power system dominated by renewables at a lower cost than conventional generation.
Christian Roselund

May 3, 2017

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Markets

Turnbull wants to subsidise coal AND gas transport
PM suggests public money could be used to subsidise gas pipelines in northern Australia, as well as underwriting rail plans of Indian coal giant Adani.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 27, 2017

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Markets

The great gas con: There are cheaper, cleaner alternatives
Just how long can the Australian government and gas industry continue the charade that there might be a solution to surging domestic gas prices? It beggars belief that business is not following lead of households and smaller commercial users and investing in cheap and cleaner alternatives for power and heat.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 20, 2017

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Markets

Gas generators hold South Australia consumers to ransom, again
Market rules again under focus as SA generators push up prices, and regulator report documents another incidence when gas plant “failures” and rebidding pushed prices to stratospheric levels.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 22, 2017

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Markets

When will ABC stop parroting fossil fuel lobbyist lines?
ABC political commentators are in the nasty habit of parroting fossil fuel myths as if they are fact. This is a problem for viewers.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 16, 2017

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The solution to Australia’s gas crisis is not more gas
Many are proposing the obvious, but wrong, solution to avoiding future price hikes: develop more gas production resources. This path will fail.
Alan Pears

Mar 14, 2017

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Storage

SA seeks bids for 100MW battery plant to kick off storage boom
South Australia to build country’s biggest battery storage plant via tender, as well as adding gas plant as “back-up”, creating a new “energy security target” and giving energy minister new powers to intervene in electricity market.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 14, 2017

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Markets

Wholesale price rises whodunit: Gas or renewables?
What drove Victoria’s wholesale electricity market prices up 46% in 2016? We put the screws on the historical data to find out.
Bruce Mountain

Mar 8, 2017

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Coal

Biggest risk to grid security is coal, gas settings, not wind or solar
New study suggests biggest threat to Australia’s energy security comes not from wind and solar, but from the control settings of coal and gas plants. It’s a revelation that should turn the debate around renewables vs fossil on its head.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 7, 2017

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Utilities

How do you solve a problem like the NEO?
While the Finkel Review recognises Australia’s “energy trilemma” – security, affordability and sustainability – we have a market that recognises only the first two of these objectives.
Mark Byrne

Mar 7, 2017

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Storage

Our power grid is crying out for capacity, but should we open the gas valves?
With high gas prices partly to blame for the electricity blackouts that hit SA this month, and gas-fired generators caught short in NSW two days later, there are calls for Australia’s onshore gas to flow much more freely.
Dylan McConnell

Feb 24, 2017

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Smart Energy

Why did energy regulators deliberately turn out the lights in South Australia?
Last Wednesday around 90,000 homes and businesses in South Australia were deliberately disconnected from the electricity grid for up to an hour. So why did it actually happen?
Hugh Saddler

Feb 13, 2017

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