Renewable energy for all
Most policy buffs suggest that governments should not pick winners in the renewable energy or any other field. Now there is a scientific reason for narrowing the choice – any energy source other than the sun and derivatives such as [...]
The IEA’s solar energy perspective
World-wide the shipping rate of solar PV has increased by a compound rate of 65% in the five years to 2010: The graph above showing the shipping rate of solar came from the International Energy association (IEA) which has recently [...]
Clive Palmer not helping LNP
The big news in the Queensland state election campaign today, overshadowing as journos like to say even Kevin Rudd’s launch of Kate Jones’ new website and Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman’s trip to flood ravaged Charleville, is an “extraordinary” press [...]
Renewables in Germany – a paradigm shift or just a muddle?
On solar PV installations the laurels go to Germany. They installed 3 Gw of solar PV in December alone, compared with 1.7 Gw in the US for the whole of 2011 – and at roughly half the price. This is [...]
Energy White Paper – an overconfident document
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Martin Ferguson personally drafted parts of the Federal Government’s new energy White Paper. It reads with the same subtext he manages to pack into just about every sentence – that you greenies have [...]
#LocktheGate, Bob Brown and Bob Katter
Some of the seemingly surprising alliances crystallised by the Lock The Gate campaign against the impacts of Coal Seam Gas exploration on land use and communities were on display in today’s media, as Lock The Gate President (and long time [...]
Quick link: CEO of largest power company argues for change
This is a guest post by John Davidson, a retired engineer who comments as John D. Climate Spectator ran a summary of this fascinating interview with David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy. NRG energy has more than 24 Gw [...]
Foreign policy week: Uranium sales to India
It seems like this is foreign policy week – or, perhaps we’ll call it “fall into line with the USA” week.
IEA and the energy crunch of 2017
The International Energy Association’s (IEA) World energy Outlook 2011 had only just hit the deck when it generated a political stoush, this time between Labor and The Greens. Greens deputy leader Christine Milne told The Age the report showed that [...]
The politics of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation
How can the government minimize the political and financial risks of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation?
Remember CCS?
There was a time, a few years ago, where you couldn’t trip over without a major party politician singing the praises of carbon capture and storage. You may remember the fanfare with which the Global CCS Institute was launched by [...]
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