Gas is booming
The Prime Minister said last week “If you’re not for gas, you’re not for jobs in our manufacturing and heavy industries.” We say if you are not for doing everything …
Energy plan maps out a road to nowhere
The Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor, released the government’s “technology-led plan to lower emissions, lower costs and support jobs” this week. However, the plan focuses on areas …
An economy for the future
Our An economy for the future campaign platform is a far cry from the Coalition’s trickle-down-economics, tax breaks for the wealthy and big business, and handouts to fossil fuel mates. …
Good call on energy tech, maybe
Today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of $1.9 billion for energy technologies for emission-intensive industries – manufacturing, transport, and agriculture – appears to be a step in the right direction …
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 …
Dirty coal, dirty tricks
It appears, at least in Queensland, that coal-fired generators are manipulating power production in order to drive costs down to zero at times in order to put large scale solar …
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’, …
Renewables drop off
At a time when we need private sector investment to fuel economic recovery, the Clean Energy Council warns that investment in renewables is falling off a cliff with the number of large-scale …