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ABC Interview with Sue Daubney - 07/08/2025

The cost of building NSW’s first renewable energy zone has risen to more than $5.5 billion in a further increase after last year’s jump, underscoring the hit to consumers from the transition to low-carbon power.

Australians will be paying the price of our governments’ great leap forward in transmission line rollouts and renewables for generations to come, writes Peter Hunt.

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue secured hundreds of millions of dollars in government commitments, incentives and subsidies for clean-energy projects, including ventures since abandoned, underscoring the challenge facing the Albanese government in its efforts to fast-track the renewable energy transition.

Australia’s long-held ambitions to tap its abundant renewable resources and vast uninhabited landmass to become a global green hydrogen leader are fast unraveling.

The Productivity Commission has given the government plenty of flexibility for developing its energy policies and emissions reductions targets over the next decade.

August 1, 2025  The Future of Green Hydrogen Is Out of Reach A number of hurdles prevent widespread adoption of this potentially game-changing technology.By: Ronan Wordsworth A recent Reuters investigation shed some […]

Cartoon by Gary Varvel

If coal is cheaper, why does the CSIRO proclaim “renewables remain the lowest-cost new-build electricity generation technology”?

It’s puzzling that Ross Garnaut is still worshipped as some sort of energy policy oracle, especially after championing ‘green hydrogen’.