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Tim Buckley discusses with Kieran Gilbert the power price spikes AEMO identifies in its latest quarterly energy dynamics report – including the devastating impacts of aging coal clunker outages. Read more

Syndicated across News Corp mastheads nationally including all regional sites in QLD: Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley has hit out at the Coalition government for providing little information when revealing its nuclear energy plan.Mr Buckley said his best cost estimate for the Coalition government’s nuclear energy plan following the CSIRO GenCost report would be $100 billion. “It’s a rather large number to not have any facts on,” Mr Buckley said. “For the shadow energy minister to spend a year building a detailed analysis of the federal opposition energy and climate strategy and provide rather limited facts, rather limited details – a one-page flyer really doesn’t cut it when you’re talking about a $100 billion of public money being invested. It’s a little bizarre that Ted O’Brien’s announcing this policy without any facts.” Read more

Tim Buckley’s Sky News interview excoriating the LNP’s nuclear con is embedded in this feature on the Australian by its Canberra Bureau Chief and Political Editor summarising responses from a broad range of thought leaders Read more

Tim Buckley demolishes the Coalition’s fact-free nuclear press release on Sky News AM Agenda Read more

Syndicated in News Corp state based mastheads across Australia – Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley says Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s plan to use nuclear energy is “financially illogical”. Read more

Tim Buckley takes a deep dive into the LNP’s nuclear energy ‘policy’ on Sky Afternoon Agenda with Ashleigh Gillion detailing why it makes zero sense here, including that it’s uninvestable, meaning the taxpayer will be gouged billions to bankroll it, the energy produced is too expensive at double the coast of renewables and it would be too late, with first operation not until 2040 at the earliest – and when firmed renewables provide an available least cost solution to our energy and climate crises. Read more

As Tim Buckley says on ABC TV’s The Business, nuclear is the most expensive option for Australia and the technology in the Australian context is entirely unproven – notwithstanding the claims to the contrary by the Coalition. Read more

Tim Buckley reviews Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Future Made in Australia Budget handed down this week, breaking down the key takeouts and what it means for Australia’s pathway to decarbonisation as the the energy transition accelerates globally. Read more

Tim Buckley from Climate Energy Finance says that Labor’s gas plan announcement is at odds with the government’s recent progress on its climate goals. Buckley says the Labor government’s Future Gas Strategy is a total undermining of the climate science and the climate action. Read more

On the Planet A podcast dive into the world of renewable energy and decarbonization with Tim Buckley, Director of Climate Energy Finance – an engaging discussion on the future of energy, global energy markets, and how we are becoming a multi-polar world. Read more

With Laura Tingle on ABC TV’s 7.30, Tim Buckley supports calls by Rod Sims and Ross Garnaut of The Superpower Institute for the federal government to leverage Australia’s generational opportunity be become a zero-emissions trade and investment leader – and for a Carbon Solutions Levy to invest in the clean energy transition. Read more

Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley says the announcing of the Capacity Investment Scheme is a “very significant move” by Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen as it “doubles” on grid capacity of renewables. The targets 82 per cent of Australia’s electricity generation to come from renewables by 2030, along with their targets for a reduction in emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Mr Bowen announced the scheme on Thursday which will underwrite 32 gigawatts of new electricity, which consists of 9 gigawatts of storage and 23 gigawatts of variable renewable energy generation. “We, at the moment, have about 32 gigawatts of renewables on grid, in Australia, today and this policy will effectively double that on grid capacity over the next four or five years,” Mr Buckley told Sky News Australia. “That capacity will be brought onstream progressively over the next two, three, four years. “In one initiative, a doubling of the renewable energy capacity on grid in Australia.” Read more