To supply everyone with enough electricity to live a good life, we’ll need about 200 billion megawatt-hours per year. Assuming solar does the heavy lifting, is it possible?
I’m no apologist for Snowy 2.0 – but let’s not obsess over delays and cost blowouts
Snowy 2.0 is by no means perfect, but Australia’s renewables transformation will need a huge amount of energy storage – and pumped hydro is an important part of the mix.
Solar is a runaway global success, and Australia is showing the way forward
The current growth rates of solar alone will see the global energy sector decarbonised by mid-century.
CSIRO report veers off course: Storage is a solved problem
CSIRO report wrongly gives the impression that storage is somehow difficult. Storage is a solved problem, and affordable solutions already exist for most applications
There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it
Australia is the global leader in finding straight forward solutions to the variability of solar power and wind. Here’s why.
To triple transmission capacity, landowners and neighbours need to be paid more
Why should wind and solar farm hosts be paid much more than hosts of the transmission lines running from those wind and solar farms?
Renewables snapshot: Are we on track to decarbonise the globe?
About 80TW of combined solar and wind is required to decarbonise the globe – so how are we tracking?
Australia plans to be a big green hydrogen exporter to Asian markets – but they don’t need it
Japan has 14 times more solar and offshore wind energy potential than needed to supply all its current electricity demand. It doesn’t need Australia.
Big battery plans for Pilbara ignore massive pumped-hydro potential
Fortescue plans to build a 9GWh battery in the Pilbara to store energy from a 5.4GW solar and wind project, but there is a cheaper alternative.
Australia could easily meet a doubling of its 2030 emissions targets. Here’s how
We don’t need new taxes, hydrogen, CCS or a “gas-led recovery”. But we do need the federal government to either get involved or get out of the way.