Yesterday
- Opinion
- Energy transition
The common sense path to net zero
Looking at the environmental crisis through the lens of financial frameworks, the core principles that drive good investment are also at play in climate change.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
This Month
Qld premier raises problem of water risk under Dutton’s nuclear plan
Labor Premier Steven Miles has quoted a new report outlining the need for a state-based plebiscite to adopt the Coalition’s nuclear plan.
- James Hall
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Delivering the world’s most important corporate rescue
What’s true for commodities is true for the greatest eleventh-hour turnaround in human history. In climate terms, that means “the cure for high emissions is high prices”.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Hard energy reality has mugged Fortescue’s hydrogen dreams
Andrew Forrest is not alone. Many corporates have suffered a similar delusion about simple, easy and cheap transition.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Picking green over blue is stalling our hydrogen superpower hopes
Labor’s tax incentive scheme maintains the habit of describing identical molecules with colours of the rainbow. It is out of step with Australia’s competitors and customers
- David Heard
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s an energy race between the implausible and the impossible
Peter Dutton has come up with a nuclear-powered cost of living wedge to expose Labor’s overreach on renewables and sustainability.
- Matthew Warren
- Opinion
- Energy transition
CSIRO brings science, not politics, to electricity cost debate
Some nuclear fans claim the agency has a position on Australia’s energy mix. That is both wrong and a misinterpretation.
- Doug Hilton
- Special Award
- Sustainability Leaders
This trailblazer turns destructive weed into a replacement for coal
Biomass Projects has plans to build the world’s largest biochar production on a 225,000-hectare Pilbara plot that is overrun with mesquite.
- Gus McCubbing
How solar beat every forecast to win the renewables race
Solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power plants in 2026, its gas-fired power plants in 2030 and its coal-fired ones in 2032.
- The Economist
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.
- Georgina Downer
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Energy transition will cost much more than politicians are pretending
The brutal reality is that taxpayers and consumers will be on the hook for much higher costs under a renewable or nuclear energy system.
- John Kehoe
RBA inflation target challenged by power prices
Other areas of the economy will need to offset the impact of higher than expected power prices to keep inflation within target, economists say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Ronald Mizen
Labor appoints former NBN boss as nuclear head
Mike Quigley has been appointed as the head of the federal government’s peak nuclear organisation.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
There is a respectable economic argument for nationalised nuclear
The bottom line is that there are sound public choice arguments for the government to build and own nuclear power plants.
- Sinclair Davidson
June
- Opinion
- Emissions
Better carrot and stick provides investment certainty for carbon cuts
The climate safeguard mechanism for large emitting facilities means reaching the 43pc emissions reduction target by 2030 is certainly “doable”.
- Kerry Schott
- Sponsored
- Ausgrid
Distributors can drive lower-cost transition
Electricity distributors can help deliver a lower cost, more socially equitable transition.
Sponsored
by Ausgrid
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Nuclear power deserves a fair hearing
The opposition and the government fail to answer critical questions on their respective nuclear stances. It is time to get the experts in.
- Bruce Mountain
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Coalition’s taxpayer-funded nuclear con a road to ruin
We estimate that the fiscal damage would be in the order of a minimum $100 billion “nuke builder” tax, but likely considerably more given the international experience.
- Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
My nuclear talk was cancelled. Here is what I would have said.
My presentation to Engineers Australia would have outlined why a nuclear-based energy system would cost consumers half as much with four times fewer emissions.
- Robert Parker
Why top companies are starting to back away from green targets
In the past year, many of the world’s biggest companies have dropped or missed goals to cut emissions or to loosen ties with polluting sectors.
- Kenza Bryan and Attracta Mooney
