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The pursuit of the energy holy grail of nuclear fusion continues apace and, while we might not be quite as optimistic as the people involved in the research and development, we are “barracking” for them to be successful. Right now, the question seems to be more “Which will be the first to make the breakthrough... Read More

It’s 100 years since Victoria started transmitting electricity from the Yallourn Power Station to Melbourne. While there are a few things that haven’t changed a whole lot, the overall energy landscape in Australia is looking very different. We’re in the middle of a period during which our entire energy system is being reshaped and we... Read More

When we had a look at the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER’s) annual State of the energy market report we decided that the sections that covered the reliability and affordability of our energy warranted a separate article – so here it is! The report is 310 pages long so to save you the pain, we’ve tried... Read More

For more than 15 years the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has produced an annual State of the energy market report, reviewing the previous 12 months (financial year) across Australian energy markets and for energy consumers. When this year’s report was released last month, there were a couple of headlines (as usual), but not as much... Read More

Every day we read something about what’s happening in the energy market, either locally or globally. Some of what’s written about is speculative and might never come to fruition, some is reported from or slanted toward a particular perspective or agenda (although that doesn’t always mean we take it with a grain of salt), and... Read More

A couple of months ago, we wrote a blog post about Improved energy efficiency in Australian homes. It was prompted by the results of a CSIRO study which found that new homes were up to 50 per cent more airtight than those they had tested in 2015. Writing that made us think back to a... Read More