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Why did South Australia's energy Minister call for some diesels be bought back into the energy mix?

Peter Dutton's nuclear plan and the media storm around it has raised questions over our media's capacity to analyse any energy plan.

The AEMO ISP & Gencost agree that costs on the other side of the meter can be ignored. That's how they find renewables cheaper than nuclear.

Australia's energy policy is fast becoming a global outlier.

Should a South Australian Parliamentary Committee recommend a ban on shooting flying ducks with shotguns? It's about the process.

Suppose you are trying to shift Australia’s 30 million tonne grain harvest and somebody has decreed that you couldn’t use anything other...

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase coined back in 1992 during a U.S. election campaign. It’s purpose was to keep people focused on...

Climate scientist Matthew England interviewed Naomi Oreskes, who, with Erik Conway, wrote: “Merchants of Doubt; How a handful of...

I posted about decarbonising diesel engines a while back and it’s time for part II: solutions. But “approaches” is definitely a more...

This is the start of a series on hard-to-decarbonise parts of the global economy. The first part will be diesel engines and it will take...

I vaguely remember learning about cargo cults at school. Are they still in the curriculum? Perhaps there is so much competition in the...

Abbreviations: AEMO: Australian Energy Market Operator ESB: Energy Security Board GENCOST: Gencost GSOO: Gas Statement of Opportunities...

Part III: Is nuclear power really expensive, or just much better? Abbreviations: AEMO: Australian Energy Market Operator CCGT:...

Abbreviations: CCGT: combined-cycle gas turbine, this is the top-of-the-range gas turbine CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage GENCOST:...

[This is Part I in a series of posts on nuclear costs, they are companions to the post on nuclear construction times. Some of it is...

[Further update: 26th August 2022 ... New York Times reporting the reactors are back on the grid. Wonderful news! Still reporting just 2...

This is the first of two posts, and deals with the speed of building nuclear reactors. The next post will deal with costs. Build speeds...

[N.B. Longer article on Grid Capacity, promised last week, has been delayed a little ... but is still coming] I keep seeing news reports...

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has drawn up a detailed Integrated System Plan (ISP) for the eastern Australian grid (the...

"Blackouts" seem to be the new black. SBS On Demand is running a couple of mini-series on them at the moment. There's a 2020 Belgian 10...