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Media Releases  |  Jun 2, 2025

Albanese to tackle Gas Cartel, could it finally be true?

Michael West Media

MWM has been calling for gas reservation for ten years. The problem is that 84% of gas is exported and, as energy analyst Tim Buckley puts it, “Ridiculously high domestic methane prices also massively drives the Australian energy cost of living crisis, both directly into homes and indirectly by driving up wholesale electricity prices. Gas electricity generators have charged an average A$200/MWh in 1HCY2025, double the $97/MWh NEM average to-date”. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 30, 2025

How Australia’s landslide vote for Labor is a win for renewables

Climate & Capital Media

The unexpected landslide victory for Australia’s Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a second term is good news for global climate action and a strong endorsement of America’s move to clean energy and former President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), despite efforts by Trump to dismantle it. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 29, 2025

Investment in big batteries booms as Australia’s energy transition gathers pace

The Guardian

The director of Clean Energy Finance, Tim Buckley, said there was cause for optimism but maintaining the pace of investment and developmentrequired much quicker approvals, construction and commissioning. “We need to get speed and scale way beyond current rates, particularly with extended delays to grid connection,” he said. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 29, 2025

OP ED | Here’s a plan to unlock Australia’s clean commodity export potential

The Australian Financial Review

The answer is increasingly clear. Australia’s largest economic opportunity lies in transforming from a conventional commodity exporter into a global supplier of clean commodities like green iron, sustainable aviation fuel, green aluminium, and clean ammonia. This opportunity is well documented. Reports from The Superpower Institute, Climate Energy Finance, and others make the case for investment in value-added clean exports that align with global demand and climate trajectories. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 27, 2025

Australia’s energy transition: Why the Government is banking on household batteries

The Nightly

“We need batteries to time shift demand from when solar is generating to when consumers are demanding it, and that is invaluable for grid stability.” Labor has committed $2.3 billion to subsidise the take-up of 1 million household batteries by 2030, providing up to 30 per cent off the upfront cost of installing eligible small-scale battery systems. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 27, 2025

Kean’s energy advice for the Liberal Party

The Energy

Tim on expert view for AER and DMO in the Energy Australia has been smashed for three years now from hyperinflation of fossil fuel costs – record high coal and methane gas prices. For all the climate luddites’ and vested interests’ misinformation associating higher electricity prices with renewables, the majority of our grid is powered by fossil fuels. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 26, 2025

NSW to see largest power price rises as default rates revealed

ABC News

“Our governments have repeatedly failed to prevent the gouging of multinational corporations profiteering at our expense, using our public resources,” he says. With the increasing cost of transmission and distribution — often simplified to “poles and wires” — and the need to further modernise our grid, he wants government to embrace what he calls the “massive battery disruption” now underway. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 26, 2025

INTERVIEW | ABC Radio Electricity prices to rise on east coast

ABC Radio National The World Today

Tim Buckley, Climate Energy Finance Director, says energy costs are rising across the board—network, wholesale, retail—driven in part by long-term […] Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 23, 2025

The rumours were true: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling

The Sydney Morning Herald

China’s emissions were down 1.6 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1 per cent in the latest 12 months, according to Myllyvirta’s analysis of new economic and climate data. China’s rapid deployment of electricity supply from new wind and solar infrastructure as well as hydro and nuclear, alongside its efforts to electrify its economy – particularly through the rapid roll-out of electric vehicles – has displaced coal and oil use and thereby cut emissions. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 23, 2025

Energy gridlock forces new thinking

The Energy

“Australia leads the world in battery energy storage deployment. The biggest problem we’ve got is trying to get those connected to the grid,” says Climate Energy Finance director Tim Buckley. “The Waratah Super Battery was actually commissioned in November last year, but it’s still not operating. It actually helped the grid in November when we had a major energy demand shock, but it’s still not operating nine months later. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 22, 2025

OP ED | Coalition’s nuclear split leaves Labor with zero excuses on climate and renewables

Renew Economy

The electorate rejected the LNP’s nuclear con job, energy transition delay tactics and climate denialism. Labor was returned with a decisive mandate to accelerate Australia’s renewable energy rollout and economy-wide decarbonisation. The nuclear fallout now includes an historic rupture between the Coalition partners, with the Liberal and National Parties committing the most spectacular act of political self-annihilation in living memory. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 20, 2025

Watch the US: fears of Chinese investment in Australia overblown

Michael West Media

Albanese and Dutton’s pre-election stoush over the Port of Darwin made one thing clear – Australia remains deeply ambivalent about Chinese investment. Each promising to end the lease if elected, the major parties clearly believed a billion-dollar national security stunt would play well with the electorate. This, despite Dutton taking no issue with the lease as a cabinet minister in 2015, and multiple reviews by Australian security agencies finding insufficient grounds to terminate it. Read more
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