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Tim Buckley reflects on AEMO’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics report for Q4 2022. While rampant hyperinflation of fossil fuels caused mass disruption in 2022, the underlying trends are clear – and the burgeoning of renewables and decline of coal and gas in the grid ultimately spell permanent price relief. Read more

Tim Buckley in an extensive interview on the burgeoning potential of off-grid, gigawatt scale solar in Australia and elsewhere. “Grid-connected utility scale solar in markets such as Australia and the US is going to be cannibalised by rooftop solar. If, as expected, Australia has 68 GW of rooftop solar in 2050, the volume of excess electricity injected into the network should mean grid power will be virtually free 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. That would mean utility solar only being viable alongside energy storage which would enable it to shift loads into the evening.” Read more

Tim Buckley: “The idea of blending hydrogen and diesel together in an existing engine is something of a Holy Grail for decarbonising heavy industry and mining” but “Can research engineers actually deploy it in a commercial setting outside the university?” Read more

As the ACT bans methane gas connections in new homes, new peer-reviewed research finds that 13% of childhood asthma cases in the US can be attributed to gas stove use. Tim Buckley writes that it’s time to turn off this expensive, toxic legacy fuel, shut down the cartel’s self-interested gaslighting, and “electrify everything” – reaping the economic, health and climate benefits of the transition. Read more

Tim Buckley comments in this CNN feature on the latest developments in the Sun Cable saga, reflecting on Andrew Forrest’s contention that Singapore doesn’t want electrons, it wants “molecules”, ie green hydrogen and ammonia. Read more

Part 1 of an extended interview with Tim Buckley on ABC Radio Drive about the ACT policy which has ended toxic and expensive methane gas connections to new homes as of 1 Jan this year, and the enormous financial and other benefits of electrifying everything. Read more

Part 2 of an extended interview with Tim Buckley on ABC Radio Drive about the ACT policy which has ended toxic and expensive methane gas connections to new homes as of 1 Jan this year, and the enormous financial and other benefits of electrifying everything. Read more

Tim Buckley says that while the current funding structure of Sun Cable is dead, it doesn’t mean the whole vision’s dead – it can be resurrected with a new corporate structure and, potentially, governments taking a larger financial stake. Read more

Tim Buckley in an extended interview on Sun Cable, noting that this challenging project proposal – a world first – needs sufficient government endorsement, and while it is currently in administration this is not equivalent to liquidation. Read more

Tim Buckley notes that in a project at the scale and complexity of Sun Cable, strategic, geopolitical, financial hiccups are inevitable and the current financial situation does not mean the vision is dead. Read more

Tim Buckley comments in this feature on the global shutting off of the pipeline of new coal power stations – a key phase in the international campaign to end coal and hasten the energy transition. Read more

Exxon Mobil is trying to sue its way out of a windfall war profits tax (33% levy on profits in excess of average profits over last 4 years) to tackle soaring energy prices claiming it will deter investment. Tim Buckley undoes the spin, pointing out Exxon will make $60bn profit this year and would be paying only $2bn of this under the windfall tax, and similar taxes (eg in WA and Norway) have not deterred investment. Read more