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In this story syndicated across 100+ mastheads, Tim Buckley notes that the impacts of climate change pose a significant threat to Australia’s economy, not the least given our historically dominant exposure to fossil fuel exports, requiring a strategic response to leverage the massive, once-in-a-century export, regional employment and investment opportunities of the energy transition. Read more

The Queensland government will invest $75 million in a critical minerals demonstration facility in Townsville, heralding a pivot to onshore value-adding. As Australia looks to establish itself as a leader in the sector,Tim Buckley notes that the federal government needs to enforce sensible regulations around the whole ecosystem early, including recycling, processing facility efficiency and carbon and pollution standards to ensure social licence. Read more

Tim Buckley writes that fossil fuels sank to their lowest-ever levels across Australia’s east-coast electricity mix in the final three months of 2022 as renewable energy overtook black coal for the first time in the history of the grid. Renewables hit a record high, providing on average 40.4% of the grid’s supply during 4Q2022. Read more

Tim Buckley comments on the AEMO Quarterly Energy Dynamics report for Q4 2022 which shows prices on the electricity futures market more than halved in the final three months of 2022 after the government intervention, as renewables set new records He notes coal and gas are in structural terminal decline, and the energy disruptions and hyperinflation of 2022 have highlighted the imperative to move to renewables as the solution. Read more

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: “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