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VIDEO | Tim Buckley breaks down the COALition’s campaign to kill renewables, aka Climate Wars 2.0
ABC TV News Channel
Tim Buckley breaks down the COALition’s attempt to kill the renewables revolution by sowing disinformation and dissent in the community as the rest of the world rapidly decarbonises
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OP ED | Once again the Coalition is trying to wreck the joint rather than save it
The Sydney Morning Herald
As Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson write, the Coalition’s Luddites are at it again, doing what they do best – wrecking the joint as they try to blow up the renewables transition. Meanwhile, investment in the clean energy that will solve the climate crisis and deliver permanent energy bill relief to consumers is skyrocketing
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REPORT OF FELS INQUIRY FINDS WIDESPREAD PRICE GOUGING & UNFAIR PRICING IN ELECTRICITY MARKET
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The Fels report released today finds There is price gouging in the electricity market and widespread gaming of the system by gentailers, as there has been in transmission, meaning consumers are paying too much and exacerbating the cost of living crisis.
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BlueScope ‘old’ blast furnace grant slammed by experts
The Australian Financial Review
Climate and energy experts criticised a $137 million federal grant to BlueScope Steel for a $1.15 billion upgrade of its Port Kembla blast furnace – extending coal-based steelmaking for two decades – as a missed chance to spur more ambitious carbon reductions.
The Climate Capital Forum, which represents investors, decarbonisation firms and policy experts, said that “while Australia procrastinates, developed world leaders are pivoting”.
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Shock at call for moratorium on ‘reckless renewables’
AAP
Blair Palese, Founder, Climate Capital Forum comments on the Coalition’s campaign to suspend investment in decarbonisation , calling it “reckless and short sighted”.
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Rally betrays anti-renewables desperation, as Joyce calls on “army” to go home and recruit
Renew Economy
Clean Energy Finance director Tim Buckley says extensive community consultation, including with landholders, communities and First Nations peoples must be central to planning for the rollout of renewables.
But “so should pivoting policy momentum and public capital to our massive, once in a century opportunity to establish Australia as a renewable energy and zero-emissions trade and investment superpower.
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Tim Buckley on the Charging Sessions podcast
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Tim Buckley speaks to Charging Sessions podcast about the energy and eMobility transition
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Asean renewable energy sector gets boost from China’s solar projects, faces hurdle of fossil fuels reliance
South China Morning Post
“The result is that China has a dramatically larger capacity to export solar modules as 2024 and 2025 unfold, and the resulting global oversupply is pushing [solar] module prices down dramatically,” said Tim Buckley, Sydney-based director of Climate Energy Finance.
China’s export prices of modules have halved, and their efficiencies have improved dramatically because of investments in research and development, he said.
“All of this is increasing the commercial viability of solar relative to alternative sources of electricity, both within China and in the wider Asian markets and globally,” Buckley said. Though its early days, China should be able to leverage its leadership with trade partners in Asia, Africa and South America, he added.
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The Future Fund already invests in Australia. Could it be asked to do more?
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Lachlan Maddock, Editor of Investor Strategy News points to Climate Capital Forum’s proposal in its pre-budget submission for the Future Fund to include a “strategic national interest objective”.
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BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project
FS Sustainability
Climate Capital Forum founder Blair Palese comments on federal government grant to Bluescope Steel for work to reline existing arc furnace in Port Kembla through Critical Inputs to Clean Energy Industries program.
“There is no time left for federal government support for anything except strategies to fully decarbonise as global demand for net-zero materials grows exponentially,” she said.
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BlueScope ‘old’ blast furnace grant slammed by experts
The Australian Financial Review
Blair Palese, Climate Capital Forum founder criticises a $137 million federal grant to BlueScope Steel for a $1.15 billion upgrade of its Port Kembla blast furnace. “We need policy vision and ambition that encourages this transition,
not more support for existing emission-intensive industries.”
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