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Global coal use in 2022 is reaching an all-time high, but Australia is bucking the trend

In a year marked by record-smashing floods, fires, heatwaves and droughts, the urgent need to act on climate change has never been more apparent. And yet, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found coal burning for electricity generation will reach record levels this year.

The Conversation · Dec 21, 2022

To clean up Australia's power grid, we're going to need many thousands more skilled workers – and fast

To get Australia’s grid 82% powered by renewables by 2030 is a huge increase. At present, the electricity powering eastern and southern states is around 33% renewable.

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2022

The Australian’s back-of-the-envelope green hydrogen figures are overblown and forget climate impact

The claim it would take 25% of Australia’s land mass to provide the planet with green hydrogen misses an obvious point

The Guardian - AU · Nov 10, 2022

The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It's time the grid returned to public hands

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

The Conversation · Jun 21, 2022

Kurri gas pipeline construction to create 400 jobs

Australia's largest natural gas infrastructure business APA Group has signed a 30 year agreement for the transport and storage of gas to the Hunter Power Project at Kurri.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 20, 2022

Is our energy supply in crisis? What's the National Electricity Market? Can it be fixed?

The National Electricity Market is in dire need of repair. How long will it take to fix? asks Gareth Hutchens.

ABC News · Jun 19, 2022

What's a grid, anyway? Making sense of the complex beast that is Australia's electricity network

News about the energy crisis engulfing Australia’s east coast seems inescapable. Terms such as “grid”, the “National Electricity Market” and “transmission” are being tossed around alongside the frightening prospect of soaring power bills – but what does it all mean?

The Conversation · Jun 17, 2022

States take reform push to new take on national cabinet

State premiers will be looking to Anthony Albanese for major reforms, particularly in energy and health, when they convene at the First Ministers Meeting.

The New Daily · Jun 16, 2022

Australia's National Electricity Market was just suspended. Here's why and what happens next

Australia’s energy market operator has just suspended the National Electricity market. That means instead of the price for wholesale electricity being set competitively, the market operator (AEMO) sets fixed prices and will take a greater role in directing which power stations generate energy and when.

The Conversation · Jun 15, 2022

'We want to be part of that movement': residents embrace renewable energy but worry how their towns will change

Amid soaring energy costs, the new Labor government is working to deliver a A$20 billion pledge to rebuild and modernise Australia’s electricity grid. It will help deliver a plan for 122 gigawatts of new renewable energy in the National Electricity Market by 2050, eventually replacing coal generation.

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2022