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renewable energy
International
Prescient president
Mike Steketee
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
Correspondents
The Glasgow paradox
Michael Jacobs
27 October 2021
What exactly is up for negotiation at next week’s COP26 conference?
National affairs
What Texas’s blackouts tell us about Australia’s energy market
John Quiggin
22 February 2021
Power failures in the United States highlight system problems half a world away
National affairs
Too cheap to meter
John Quiggin
19 October 2020
Ultra-low interest rates have fundamentally changed the arithmetic of renewable energy
Essays & reportage
Here comes the sun
Tristan Edis
7 January 2020
Are three multimillionaires about to break Australia’s political deadlock on climate?
National affairs
So far, so good for South Australia’s energy future
Robert Milliken
14 March 2018
With coal on the way out, the state’s prospects are bright, says the businessman who backs Labor’s energy plans
National affairs
Uncertainties and opportunities
Frank Jotzo
13 July 2011
The speed of carbon reduction is hard to predict, writes
Frank Jotzo
, but we’ll certainly need to do some serious spending
National affairs
A clean energy future for whom?
Fergus Green
13 July 2011
Fergus Green
unpacks the carbon pricing package to discover, at its core, a tension between fundamentally different visions for the future of Australia’s economy…
National affairs
The new geography of geothermal energy
Peter Browne
5 December 2009
Could Latrobe Valley coal be creating a source of renewable energy? That’s one of the questions being explored in the Victorian Geothermal Assessment Report, writes…
National affairs
An exotic answer to a real world problem
Brian Toohey
2 December 2009
There are more straightforward ways of moving towards a low-carbon future, argues
Brian Toohey
National affairs
Shortchanging the “greatest moral challenge”
Brian Toohey
7 October 2009
The vast spending gap between compensation and renewable energy demonstrates a lack of federal government commitment to dealing with climate change, writes
Brian Toohey
National affairs
Kicking the petrol habit
Rob Chalmers
25 August 2009
Massive public assistance is being given to a dying technology, writes
Rob Chalmers
, just when electric cars are showing enormous promise
National affairs
Ducking the challenge
Brian Toohey
5 August 2009
Is Kevin Rudd a supporter or a critic of neo-liberal policy-making? On the evidence of his approach to climate change, it’s hard to know, writes
Brian Toohey
National affairs
Broadening Australia’s response to climate change
Iain MacGill & Regina Betz
4 March 2009
A diverse set of measures is needed if we are to minimise the risk of failing to deal effectively with climate change, write
Iain MacGill and Regina Betz
Essays & reportage
Solar policy trapped in the state shadowlands
Peter Mares
27 November 2008
All sides of politics agree that a German-style national feed-in tariff to encourage rooftop solar power makes sense. But Christine Milne’s bill to create the tariff is…
National affairs
Brainstorm in Dubai
Ian Lowe
12 November 2008
The World Economic Forum’s latest summit showed that Australia can both learn from and teach the rest of the world, writes
Ian Lowe
from Dubai
Correspondents
A working model for a new president
Fred Pearce
6 November 2008
California is leading the way on climate change, reports
Fred Pearce
, with an Australian company likely to make a major contribution