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CEF in the media  |  Aug 5, 2025

Australia’s biggest battery now on standby to prevent NSW power blackouts

The Guardian

Tim Buckley, the director of Climate Energy Finance, said the battery’s delivery could help bring energy prices down by supporting more green energy projects to completion. “It will [help] more wind and solar and firming capacity into the grid, all of which means we will see electricity prices stabilise and then progressively, hopefully come down over time,” he said. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Aug 4, 2025

Why this tradie loves his EV (Hint: It’s Labor’s EV subsidy)

The Australian Financial Review

Brendan Lang knows a bit about going electric. The tradie from Melbourne’s north installs electrical appliances, including rooftop solar panels and batteries, in homes transitioning away from gas. So when the time came to replace his Volkswagon Amarok ute, he opted for an EV, figuring it would eventually save him money and help his business. But that decision, he says, was based on the availability of a generous tax break introduced by Labor in 2022. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Aug 4, 2025

OP ED | Trump has left the door open on clean energy

The Australian

Blair Palese, founder of CEF partner Climate Capital Forum and CEF board member writes that “Australia faces a unique, time- sensitive economic opportunity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rightly put productivity at the heart of Australia’s economic agenda, outlining key pillars to create a dynamic, resilient and fu- ture-ready economy. But events in the US have dramatically ex- panded Australia’s potential economic opportunities.” Read more
CEF in the media  |  Aug 3, 2025

Green hydrogen hype fades but future hopes are bright

Canberra Times

For green hydrogen, the valley is looming large after two energy giants withdrew support for multibillion-dollar Australian projects within one month. Following the announcements, a $14 billion plant will no longer be built in Gladstone, Queensland and a $55 billion proposal for Western Australia’s Pilbara region is in doubt. But while the global green hydrogen hype is starting to deflate, climate, energy and finance experts say there are still plenty of reasons to pursue production of the zero-emission fuel in Australia. Read more
CEF in the media Podcasts  |  Aug 3, 2025

PODCAST | Tim & Grant McDowell on Spark Club: Australia’s Energy Transformation Progress

Spark Club Podcast

Highlights Australia’s Federal Senate Disinformation inquiry ARENA award to Calix $45m Allegra Spender Productivity and Tax Roundtable Lowlights Lithium Hydroxide Refinery Write-off by IGO Main Story The Race to 82% Renewables AEMO’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics 2QCY2025 Methane gas generation plays an important but small and progressively declining role 25% upscaling of the CIS Big BESS News What’s coming up? CEF hoping Minister Bowen will go the top end of the CCA’s 65-75% reduction target. Australia is yet to win the presidency of #COP31, if we do, that will be a key priority for CEF’s Caroline Wang over the coming 15 months. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Aug 2, 2025

Adani promised Australia billions from its Carmichael mine but it hasn’t paid a cent in tax. How did we get here?

The Guardian

Tim Buckley, a former investment banker and the director of Climate Energy Finance, describes Adani’s finances as an “extremely complex, opaque corporate structure”. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jul 29, 2025

Pivot Australia. Can the Lucky Country transition to plucky country on energy?

Michael West Media

Stiell’s comments come as Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce and One Nation’s Pauline Hanson push a private member’s bill to scrap Australia’s 2050 net zero target, exposing divisions within the Coalition. Meanwhile, the Albanese government is preparing to set its 2035 target next year, due in September, a decision widely viewed as a test of whether Australia intends to match the pace of global decarbonisation or remain tethered to its fossil fuel export model. Tim Buckley, founder of Climate Energy Finance, said the 2035 target represents Australia’s chance to align with the global clean energy transition and secure long-term economic and geopolitical benefits. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jul 28, 2025

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent

The Guardian

Adani’s accounts show that even though revenue has been rising from the Carmichael operations, it has enough interest on related-party loans and other expenses to keep reporting losses. ATO disclosures for the Abbot Point terminal business, now named North Queensland Export Terminal Holdings, between 2013 and 2023 showed just one record of the Adani entity paying tax, which was for $4m in 2017-18. The port regularly generates annual income of between $300m and $550m. Tim Buckley, a former investment banker and the director of Climate Energy Finance, says that given Adani has not paid tax during recent periods of surging coal prices, it probably never will. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jul 25, 2025

From solar panels to super dams: China’s clean energy takeover

The Australian Financial Review

“The Chinese companies are ready to go,” says Tim Buckley, director at Climate Energy Finance. “But they’re waiting on clarity around incentives, and a signal they’re welcome.” Treasury has confirmed that private Chinese firms like CATL, BYD and Trina Solar face no restrictions under FIRB rules – though state-owned enterprises remain sensitive. Still, Buckley warns, “we need to partner with them, bring in their robotics, and leverage our low-cost energy future”. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jul 25, 2025

Court overturns massive coal mine approval on climate grounds

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance, a pro-renewables energy analysis group, said the Albanese government had been ignoring its responsibility for the emissions caused by the fossil fuel it sells overseas. “The Albanese government has acted on scope one through the safeguard mechanism [which forces industry emission cuts],” Buckley said. “They’re acting on scope two by decarbonising our electricity system. But they’re failing to act on scope three – that’s what the Woodside decision highlighted. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jul 25, 2025

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

The Sydney Morning Herald

It will be of a Barnaby Joyce sideshow in a parliamentary corridor in which he announced he would introduce a private member’s bill to dump Australia’s goal to reach net zero by 2050. Joyce and his former political foe Michael McCormack had apparently arrived in Canberra having cooked up a plan to carve up the spoils of the Coalition’s comprehensive election loss. “This is a hell of crowd,” Joyce chirped as he lobbed up to the press pack he had gathered. He gave three main reasons for dumping the target, all of which are wrong. Read more
CEF in the media Videos  |  Jul 18, 2025

INTERVIEW | Tim Buckley at SkyNews Melbourne on Green Steel

Sky News

Tim Buckley highlights the immense opportunity and risk for Australia in the global push for green steel. As the world’s […] Read more
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