Biofuels
Biofuels have been a major part of the supposed energy transition. They have been the subject of much investment, governmental legislation and subsidy, to make them attractive and sometimes to force consumption. The fundamental...
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Ember Global Electricity Review: Australia
This continues the rather heavy policy, figures posts I’ve been making recently, to try and make sense of what is happening with the confusions in Australia over energy transition. General Remarks This is a quick account...
Read MoreLabor and Community Batteries: Information mess or reality?
One of the recurrent themes of this blog is that climate policies all over the world, seem spur of the moment, confused contradictory, and hard to trace. I’ve argued that this partly derives from the existential crisis...
Read MoreMore on the Political Background: The ALP Platform
The Australian Labor Party had its national conference yesterday. They are Australia’s only practical hope for action on climate change and energy transition. However, they seem to have decided to support, and lock-in, gas...
Read MoreA New Report on the possibility of Renewable Transition
Background The report comes from the Australia Institute (AI) and the the Victorian Energy Policy Centre, who will undoubtedly be dismissed as a bunch of old lefties, or the socialist dictatorship in hiding. Anyway their Report...
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