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Finkel Review, blueprint for Australia’s electricity market: “the real work...
Mount Piper coal power station in Australia The blueprint for Australia’s future electricity market released recently by Australia’s chief scientist Alan Finkel pleases some but not all market...
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Petrol car ban won’t work without a huge investment in electric infrastructure
BMW Mini plant in Oxford The UK government is proposing a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, in a move that echoes a recent announcement in France. Setting this sort of...
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How electricity will be priced in the future
California’s regulators are sensitized to new realities The rapid transformation of the electricity sector will make it necessary for utilities to adopt radically new pricing methods, writes Fereidoon...
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EU must take regionalisation of electricity markets a step further
The European Commission has proposed to set up Regional Operational Centers (ROCs), which is a welcome step in the further integration of the EU internal electricity market, writes Philip Baker of the...
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How Paris and Vienna are struggling to become the clean cities of the future
Paris Autolib EV car sharing system The success of the clean energy transition will depend to a large extent on the actions of local and regional authorities. Sustainability officers from Paris, Sabine...
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The spectacular success of the German Energiewende- and what needs to be done...
German Green Party Congress 2017 in Berlin While a government is being formed in Berlin, which will have important implications for the future of the Energiewende, author and scholar Professor John...
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German utilities are struggling with digitalization, especially in retail
German utilities claim that they are becoming consumer-centred, service-based organisations, but research from Oliver Wyman shows that in actual fact their market share in the digitalized retail market...
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The Polish energy problem – the Ukrainian nuclear solution
Zaporozhskaya nuclear power station in Ukraine Poland can’t continue to rely on coal, because it’s dirty, inefficient and increasingly has to be imported from Russia. But is there an alternative? Yes,...
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The net cost of using renewables to hit Australia’s climate target? Nothing
Australia can meet its 2030 greenhouse emissions target at zero net cost, according to a new analysis of a range of options for the National Electricity Market, write Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu and Matthew...
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Winds of change: Britain now generates twice as much electricity from wind as...
Rampion wind farm seen from Brighton photo John HikerBiker Just six years ago, more than 40% of Britain’s electricity was generated by burning coal. Today, that figure is just 7%. Yet if the story of...
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Will China’s Belt and Road Initiative help or hinder clean energy?
Leaders at Belt and Road forum, May 2017 China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the broad infrastructure and market-building initiative of the world’s second-largest economy, has a different feel than trade...
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China takes steps to stimulate distributed renewable energy generation
China’s spectacular expansion of its solar power capacity is mostly based on utility-scale solar, but distributed solar is also taking off, write Max Dupuy and Wang Xuan, two China experts from the...
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Time for German network operators to come clean about tariffs
Network tariffs are an important part of energy costs for consumers, yet, surprisingly, the way these fees are established in Germany is completely opaque, writes Andreas Jahn, Berlin-based Senior...
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Beyond Bitcoin: how to build an energy-efficient blockchain that can help the...
Bitcoin mining facility in Ordos Inner Mongolia (photo Bloomberg) There is widespread concern over the high energy use of Bitcoin mining. But blockchains can be highly energy-efficient, writes Sam...
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Nuclear power in crisis: we are entering the Era of Nuclear Decommissioning
Chapelcross nuclear power plant in Scotland was decommissioned in 2007. Nuclear power is in crisis ‒ as even the most strident nuclear enthusiasts acknowledge ‒ and it is likely that a new era is fast...
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Rapid wind and solar cost declines keep pushing fossil fuels out. How far can...
Las Vegas: city’s municipal power runs on renewable energy Rapid cost declines made renewable energy the United States’ cheapest available source of new electricity, without subsidies, in 2017, writes...
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Microgrids: from niche to $100 billion market
ABB’s Longmeadow microgrid in Johannesburg, South Africa Energy experts at Navigant Research are convinced that micro-grids are moving from a niche novelty to mainstream, writes Fereidoon Sioshansi,...
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Charging electric vehicles: the challenges ahead
Forget the latest Tesla announcement, writes John Massey. What is more important for the future of electric cars is how we will solve the challenge of charging them. Massey, an independent energy...
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A step backwards – European Member states threaten to reverse progress on the...
The European Council’s proposals on the internal energy market fundamentally weaken the framework that is needed to deliver an integrated market that will benefit European energy consumers, write...
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Energy storage does not always make the electric grid cleaner
Energy storage can help grids use more wind and solar power, but it does not always reduce carbon emissions, write Naga Srujana Goteti, Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams of the University of Rochester....
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