Gas is the wrong strategy, update
The Morrison Government has today released the outline of their plans for a gas-fired economic recovery against the best advice available from the AEMO, CSIRO, investment banks, farmers, environmentalists, and …
1.5 deg. by 2024
The latest report by the World Meteorological Organisation comes with a serious warning: The limit of 1.5 deg. increase in warming, set in the Paris climate agreement, may be exceeded …
It’s the first-ever World EV day and there’s news to celebrate
AGL is offering EV ‘subscriptions’ from $299/week for electric vehicles, initially for customers within 50km of Sydney or Melbourne. It predicts that half of all new cars sold will be …
At last, some action on EVs but still too slow
We still don’t have a plan for switching to electric vehicles (promised in June 2020, now sometime in 2021) but ARENA is working on preparing the network for growth in EV …
Doing the dirty on clean energy
The Coalition, in its vendetta against clean renewable energy, will this week push a bill through Parliament that obliges the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to manage a $1billion ‘Grid Reliability Fund’, …
Something rotten in the state of Australia
The government’s National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) is revealing who it really serves; Australia’s corporate and fossil-fuel lobby. Despite the release of the Australian Energy Market Operator’s much awaited Integrated System …
EVs to grid – it’s happening
Your electric vehicle, if you have one, may soon be able to sell its stored power to the National Electricity Market. It’s already working in other more enlightened countries but …
NSW ups the ante on renewables
We are pleased to see the NSW State Minister for Energy, Matt Kean, today announced plans for an 8,000MW renewable energy zone in the New England region – a follow …
Government incompetence on the environment – EPBC update
Last Thursday, the Federal Auditor-General handed down a damning report into the Referrals, Assessments and Approvals of Controlled Actions under the EPBC Act 1999. Here’s a summary of what was …
EV Strategy – still waiting
With much of the world powering on with electric vehicle targets and Australia an embarrassing laggard, the Government finally agreed late last year to release an EV strategy in June. …