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Queensland just had its worst outage in 40 years. Why and what’s next. It’s news to absolutely nobody that it can get quite hot in Queensland in summer. In fact, the Sunshine State is literally synonymous with the sun shining pretty much all the time. Apart from when the odd cyclone brings torrential, flooding rain.... Read More

There’s no disputing that Australia is well into a transformation of its energy generation and distribution systems. Some may want to argue about how we go about it and how feasible (or not) different approaches might be. It seems unlikely that we’ll get consensus any time soon, which means more time, money, and intellectual energy... Read More

Electricity prices, the energy market, and the type of generation in the mix used to be irrelevant topics for the average Australian household. We click the switch and the lights come on.  A few years ago, that started to change, the topic of green energy, the carbon tax, the “National Energy Guarantee”, and the like... Read More

You might have seen the big headline from the 28th conference of the parties – COP28 for short – in the United Arab Emirates, that Australia has joined more than 100 other countries across the globe in committing to a tripling of renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade. Perhaps the idea was... Read More

When you think about all the various independent generation types, the millions of kilometres of wires, the sheer size of Australia, the impact of extreme weather events, and the millions of customers switching appliances on at random, it’s amazing the grid works as reliably as it does. That only happens due to a whole bunch... Read More

Pulling clean, unlimited energy from thin air sounds so ridiculous that you’d be excused for thinking it’s some sort of unfunny joke. We heard about it a couple of weeks ago and we’re still shaking our heads. But it is real … and it’s spectacular! The concept relies on harnessing the charge that already exists... Read More