Reuters
Surging small-scale renewables generation is helping China address growing power demand and slashing the role of coal in the country’s power mix, but Beijing’s widely followed monthly data reports omit output from the fast-growing sector.
“China NBS’s generation data for wind and especially solar only capture some of the generation, whereas their capacity figures show the full picture,” said Xuyang Dong, China energy policy analyst at Sydney-based think tank Climate Energy Finance.
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South China Morning Post
China’s massive expansion of green technology can help the world decarbonise and decrease prices at a speed and scale required by the climate crisis.
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Sky News
Tim Buckley accurately predicts no new details in costings or any other aspect of the LNP’s nuclear ‘policy’ were revealed in Peter Dutton’s speech to CEDA the day after this interview. The LNP nuclear thought bubble remains unviable – too costly, impractical and decades too late for Australian decabonisation.
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ABC online
The director of Climate Energy Finance, Tim Buckley, said while Australia was right to court capital from the UAE for the green energy transition, it was also important to keep expectations in check.
“I welcome collaboration with UAE, but we have to be realistic about how much money they might pour into Australia,” he said. “Particularly as the UAE is already emerging as a competitor for Australia in clean energy, because it has a big pool of capital for projects and an abundance of wind and solar, like us.” Mr Buckley said the truly “massive” commercial opportunities for Australia still lay in collaborating with major economies in the region like China and Japan to assist their decarbonisation progress.
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The flaws in the Adani Godda power plant agreement have been widely documented in international media as well. Tim Buckley, a leading energy expert, told The Washington Post in 2022 that Bangladesh would pay over five times the country’s average wholesale electricity price for power from Adani’s plant. Even if coal prices revert to pre-Ukraine war levels, Bangladesh would still be paying 33 percent more for Adani’s electricity compared to its domestic coal-based power plants. Buckley described this contract as “an absolute gouge” and questioned how any reasonable person could have signed such a detrimental deal on behalf of Bangladesh.
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The Guardian
Energy analysts, including Tim Buckley, say Origin needs to reveal how it will remain a major generator of power if it is to meet a customer book totalling about 4.5 million people.
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The Australian Financial Review
As Tim Buckley and AM Jonson write the record high of low-cost wind and solar in the grid comes as we are still waiting for the Coalition’s budget projections on its plan to nationalise the eye-watering cost of seven nuclear plants.
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[Republished on Chinese media WeChat official account – Radio2000华语]
Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance, emphasized the potential for cooperation between China and Australia in the fields of green energy transformation and manufacturing in an interview with reporters. As a major iron ore exporter, Australia can export green iron to China by using its own renewable energy for value-added processing, helping its steel industry decarbonize. In addition, there are huge opportunities for cooperation between the two sides in solar energy technology and polysilicon production. Overall, Australia can expand its competitive advantages in clean energy technology, key minerals and green manufacturing through cooperation with China, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
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The Australian
Coal generated less than 50 percent of Australia’s electricity in the last week of August, dropping to a record low as renewable production surged, data showed Wednesday.
Australia remains one of the world’s leading exporters of coal and gas and has relied heavily on fossil fuels to keep the lights on.
But climate finance expert Tim Buckley said August’s record figures were caused by wild weather and a warm start to the spring, which had reduced demand on the grid by up to 20 percent.
Winds exceeding 150 kilometres (93.2 miles) per hour in the southeast of the country had also almost doubled the usual wind generation.
“It’s a historically low coal share for Australia in the national energy market, but it’s also a sign of where we are going,” Buckley told AFP.
“It will only be a few years from now that coal is contributing virtually nothing,” he added.
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[On MENAFN] In a historic development for Australia’s energy sector, coal-fired power generation fell to an unprecedented low during the last week of August.
Tim Buckley, a climate finance expert, highlighted that while this record low is partly a result of temporary weather conditions, it also indicates a broader trend towards diminishing reliance on coal. Buckley predicts that it will only be a few years before coal’s contribution to the national energy market approaches zero.
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[On One Media – a Chinese social media platform on WeChat] On September 3, 2024, the Australia Financial Review Asia Summit was held at the Sofitel Melbourne. The theme of the summit was “Securing Australia’s Asian Destiny”, aiming to cope with the increasingly complex strategic environment and economic opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. The summit brought together political and business leaders from Asia and Australia, as well as scholars, strategists, entrepreneurs and technical experts to discuss the far-reaching impact of geopolitical competition, economic growth, and technological and social changes in the Asia-Pacific region on Australia’s future.
Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance, emphasized the potential for cooperation between China and Australia in the fields of green energy transformation and manufacturing in an interview with reporters. As a major iron ore exporter, Australia can export green iron to China by using its own renewable energy for value-added processing, helping its steel industry decarbonize. In addition, there are huge opportunities for cooperation between the two sides in solar energy technology and polysilicon production. Overall, Australia can expand its competitive advantages in clean energy technology, key minerals and green manufacturing through cooperation with China, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
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Renew Economy
As China’s construction slump and steel glut bite, the chairman of government-owned China Baowu Group, the world’s largest steelmaker, has warned China’s steel sector will enter a “severe winter” more challenging than even the major downturns experienced during the GFC of 2008.
This spells trouble for iron ore. Australia is the world’s largest iron ore exporter, and it is our number one commodity export, with over 80% going to China. The benchmark iron ore price has fallen below $US100/tonne, while prices for metallurgical coal used in steelmaking have dropped by a third to US$202/t in just 2 months.
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