Clean tech finance expert and head of Climate Energy Finance think tank Tim Buckley thinks a China CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechnanism) is just what’s needed to kick Australian miners into action. “While it’s a leap from a tariff increase on large engine cars to a China CBAM, it is great to see China referencing and linking the importance of the energy sector technology disruption and the need to green the economy.” says Buckley. Read more

Senior energy market analyst and director of Climate Energy Finance Tim Buckley said the report was “exceptionally disappointing”. He said AEMO’s report effectively indicated the energy market regulator wasn’t doing its job. “AEMO models in its May report released today that NSW reliability has improved relative to 2023, but only if new investments underway in renewable energy, dispatchable capacity, transmission and Consumer Energy Resources (CER) such as rooftop solar and batteries progress as advised. Read more

Australia’s energy market operator, AEMO, is warning of power shortages in NSW, Victoria and South Australia in the coming years, as key energy projects fall behind schedule. Its latest report calls for urgent investment and coordination of smaller-scale energy projects to shore up the grid’s reliability. Energy analysts say rooftop solar and household batteries will be crucial in keeping the lights on. Read more

Tim Buckley, an energy analyst and director of Climate Energy Finance, labelled AEMO’s forecast “exceptionally disappointing” for NSW. “The real reliability gap here is the failure of authorities to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy, transmission and grid connections needed to ensure cheap and reliable energy to consumers statewide,” he said. Read more

n this episode of The Greener Way, we hear from Tim Buckley, founder and director of Climate Energy Finance, a public interest pro bono think tank that produces research and analysis on accelerating the global energy transition. Read more

Tim Buckley, the executive director Climate energy Finance has similarly pinpointed green iron as “the number one opportunity” for Australia in the zero emissions global economy and a $100 billion a year export value uplift opportunity. Read more

Japan’s largest power company and one of the largest thermal power producers in the world has announced the launch of a major new global renewables business, becoming the latest fossil giant to act on the existential threat of net zero to its business model. On balance, however, Buckley and Aggarwal say the transition of another “fossil fuel dinosaur” into offshore wind adds to mounting evidence that they are “belatedly starting to react to the existential threat of net zero to their business models.” Read more

Tim Buckley, director of independent public interest think tank Climate Energy Finance, said the act would lay the foundations to make Australia a zero-emissions trade and investment leader and global clean energy “superpower”. About 27 percent of the Australian economic output came from exports to international partners and this new act would have flow-on effects and help them decarbonise as well, Buckley told AFP. “State intervention is the new competition. We can’t afford to ‘sit it out’. The Future Made In Australia Act puts Australia into the global race. It is the investment signal and de-risking private capital needs,” he said. Read more

Albanese’s Future Made in Australia Act is a much-needed signal to promote competition, resiliency, productivity, and attract capital, investors say. The new on-shore manufacturing laws give the green light for superannuation funds and other institutional investors to reach their billion-dollar climate funding targets, crowding in capital to the nation’s renewable economy. Tim Buckley, director of think tank Climate Energy Finance said the US’s IRA – and China’s response – “change everything”. Read more

By BLAIR PALESE and TIM BUCKLEY To capitalise on the advantages of our strongly export-oriented economy and our excellent relationships with our partners in an increasingly complex and dynamic global geopolitical context, the government’s Future Made in Australia is focused on collaborating with our Asian trade partners. The government has acknowledged the need for better understanding and tools to determine how Australia encourages and develops an international green premium price signal for trade in decarbonised products. Read more

That there is an opportunity, there is no doubt. Tim Buckley, director of think tank Climate Energy Finance and a former managing director of Citigroup, he tells me there is $US4 trillion-$6 trillion ($6.1 trillion-$9.1 trillion) annually of global investment capital looking to find a home in the world’s clean energy and decarbonisation revolution. But he says, in the face of the US Inflation Reduction Act and the direct stimulation and support that is providing for clean energy investment and the reinvigoration of manufacturing capacity there, “Australia can’t rely on the traditional notion of free markets in international trade and competition”. Read more

limate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley says the Prime Minister’s Future Made in Australia Act requires a “whole of government” approach without “overriding environmental consideration”. This comes amid criticism that the investment into renewables has plateaued and it’s the wrong time to be putting all our eggs in one basket. Mr Buckley said there are many renewable energy projects in the investor cue “waiting for the right government policy ambition”. “That’s what we’re getting today,” he told Sky News Australia. He also pointed out Australia needs to leverage its trading resources and “help our major Asian trading partners decarbonize their economy”. “It’s about working collaboratively. “This actually really expands Australia’s opportunity investment set.” Read more