infrastructure Archives - Renew Economy

Commentary

Is there a better way to serve retail customers? How about a smaller and cheaper grid connection
Hapless customers have had to pay for an expensive grid design that has delivered a lot of capacity that sits idle most of the time. There is a smarter solution.
Fereidoon Sioshansi

May 23, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Australia needs to spend $165bn to rapidly decarbonise grid, but we’ll be better for it
Australia’s go slow on climate means it faces one of the steepest decarbonisation challenges, but doing so will leave consumers better off.
Michael Mazengarb

Sep 20, 2021

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Zero carbon infrastructure the focus of major new Australian study
ClimateWorks, ASBEC and ISCA team up to release issues paper that aims to develop a vision for infrastructure under a zero carbon world.
Michael Mazengarb

Mar 5, 2020

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Electric Vehicles

Autonomous vehicle revolution could catch out property investors
Survey finds big property owners have given hardly any thought to how they would repurpose their assets in the event of an autonomous vehicle boom.
Tony Bosworth

Oct 15, 2018

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Smart Energy

CEFC targets infrastructure emissions, with investment in Morrison & Co
Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests $150m in alternative asset manager Morrison & Co, to boost energy efficiency of key social and economic infrastructure assets.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 26, 2018

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Electric Vehicles

Toyota vs Tesla: Can hydrogen fuel-cell cars compete with EVs?
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) appear to be making a comeback, but do they have a chance against the electric vehicle?
Tony Seba

Nov 7, 2016

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Markets

New transmission line will open up wind farm opportunities
Spark Infrastructure has first hand experience of the impact that renewables have on the wires and poles business and the opportunities and challenges that presents.
David Leitch

Aug 24, 2016

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Head of UK’s National Grid says “idea of large power stations for baseload is outdated”
Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, believes the idea of large coal-fired or nuclear power stations to be used for baseload power is “outdated”.
Karel Beckman

Sep 15, 2015

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Zero energy at zero cost: How to retrofit buildings in a week
The Netherlands has found a way to refurbish existing buildings to net zero energy, within a week, with a 30-year builders’ guarantee and no subsidies.
Karel Beckman

Sep 15, 2014

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Can Germany survive the Energiewende?
Efforts to Sustain the Energiewende – an increasingly disordered effort to unshackle industrial society from the chains of fossil fuels – are looking frail.
Jeffrey Michel

Mar 31, 2014

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Running on clean energy: “Question of social and political will”
US has technology and logistical ability to convert to all-renewable energy sources by 2050—if it can manage to exercise necessary social and political will.
Sandy Dechert

Feb 26, 2014

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