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There’s a big investment boom on and Australia is at the head
Fifth Estate
Tim Buckley says rising EV sales and an expanding renewable energy sector are driving the lithium market, with charging stations, green power-generation capability, eMobility providers, battery manufacturers, and energy suppliers anticipated to stimulate market growth in the coming years.
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Eye on lithium: When in comes to decarbonisation the US is putting its money where its mouth is
Stockhead
“A huge amount of political, strategic, and financial support – roughly A$370b – has been laid out and according to Tim Buckley, today’s announcement of up to $816 million in grants to three ASX listed companies only further accelerates these investment trends.”
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ENERGY TRANSITION | Victoria plan to revive public energy ownership
Canberra Times
“As we build out more supply of very cheap, variable renewable energy – firmed by batteries and so on – we will see the electricity price halve over the next decade,” CEF director Tim Buckley told AAP in a story featured across over 100 mastheads.
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ENERGY TRANSITION | Renewable energy transmission gets multi-billion injection but projects still years away
ABC Radio National Drive
Tim Buckley: “It will take 5-10 years to build out the grid after a decade of policy inaction. Now we have to move double fast to build the infrastructure and facilitate the wave of $100bn of new regional investment in wind, solar, pumped hydro, batteries and so on bringing huge employment opportunities and value adding for communities and industries, and to lower energy prices for all of us”. [at 11:45]
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ENERGY TRANSITION | Government announces funding plan for Marinus Link
ABC Radio National PM
Tim Buckley: “The critical point here is that the federal government is now working with the states to deliver on key objectives: decarbonisation, reducing the cost of power for all Australians and modernising the grid.”
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OP ED #4 CRITICAL MINERALS | When critical minerals and decarbonisation collide: eight value add refining projects
Renew Economy
In this note, Tim Buckley and Matthew Pollard review eight newer value-add refining proposals in Australia and NZ to illustrate that capital flows are accelerating to clean energy: rare earths, hydrogen electrolysers and green ammonia, vanadium, lithium hydroxide, nickel and cobalt, and downstream battery developments.
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ENERGY TRANSITION | As energy costs grow so do the flow-on effects to the elderly and low-income Australians
Canberra Times
Tim Buckley comments that a decrease in energy prices will come from meaningful federal government investment in the grid, “unlocking new zero emissions capacity investment, increasing supply and reducing prices for Australians,” in this story syndicated across the ACM media network.
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INDIA | India to add 35-40 GW of Renewable Energy Capacity to FY29/30 Says Report
Solar Quarter
India on track to surpass its target of 50% of its energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030, as coal’s share of generation slumps to 2030 – new CEF/IEEFA report.
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GM Signs Landmark Agreement With Australian Company for Critical Minerals
The Epoch Times, US
GM to source nickel and cobalt from QLD based QPM. “Tim Buckley told The Epoch Times in April that Australia has the potential to become a world leader in the ‘green’ revolution, given its resource wealth in lithium, rare earths, copper, cobalt, nickel, wind, solar, and hydro – everything needed to benefit from the U.N.-led push for decarbonization.”
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INDIA | India’s energy future is looking green, report says
Wall Street Journal
WSJ covers the IEEFA/CEF report released today on India’s renewables trajectory, with the country projected to add 35 to 40 gigawatts of renewable energy annually until 2030, enough to power up to 30 million more homes each year.
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Gautam Adani was a college dropout. Now he may be too big to fail
CNN
Tim Buckley on the Indian billionaire: “Adani has been very astute in aligning his own commercial interests with the interests of India and the prime minister.” Might he now do a Rockefeller and clean up his legacy?
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OP ED #3 CRITICAL MINERALS | Eight key critical minerals projects in Australia’s $10bn pipeline
Renew Economy
By Tim Buckley and Matt Pollard, CEF. Australia has the potential to be a Critical Minerals Mining and Refining Superpower, […]
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