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Nuclear dead, ambitious energy transformation mandate alive and well
What does the Albanese government’s landslide re-election victory mean for Australia’s climate and energy future? The LNP’s nuclear furphy is dead, buried and cremated. Now is the time for conviction and courage to double down and move at the speed the climate science dictates, seizing the magnitude of opportunities ahead for Australia on energy transition, domestic and export. Read more
Holding the major parties to account over climate
Climate Capital Forum spoke to AAP ahead of the election, and called for continued commitment to the climate fight post election 2025. Founder Blair Palese says no matter the outcome of Saturday’s federal vote, the Forum will be pushing hard for renewable industrial precincts, help for innovators and a government climate “tsar” to keep the agenda moving. Read more
Offshore power generation poses a dilemma for developers
Forum member Mads Prange Kristensen, CEO of KRISCON, explains the challenges facing developers when assessing investments in developing markets. The Developer’s Dilemma involves “deciding how far along the development process they are willing to keep spending money versus the certainty of getting a return on the investment.” Read more
Coalition proposal undercuts Australians to fund expensive nuclear fantasy
Climate Capital Forum is one of 30 organisations who joined in a statement responding to the federal Coalition’s proposal for $100 billion in cuts to housing, transport, education, and climate solutions. Read more
“Community support for renewables isn’t bought, it’s earned”, Squadron boss says
Satya Tanner, Managing Director of LAUTEC Australia features in this article in Energy News Bulletin on winning community support for rolling out renewable energy projects. Read more
To make the move to renewables, get the communities engaged
Satya Tanner, Managing Director LAUTEC Australia and Climate Capital Forum member explains in this opinion piece in Energy News Bulletin how community engagement can facilitate acceptance of renewable energy projects, and how Australia can learn from the history of projects in Denmark. Read more
What Australia can learn from Denmark’s wind farms – interview with Satya Tanner
Satya Tanner, Managing Director, LAUTEC Australia and CCF Member shared her thoughts and experiences of community ownership of renewables infrastructure projects in Denmark on Radio National Breakfast with Patricia Karvelas. Read more
Australia has massive battery opportunity, and it needs to think big and go hard to seize it
Opinion piece from energy leader Danny Kennedy from New Energy Nexus on the opportunity for Australia for invest onshore in battery processing. “Time and again we are faced with this frustrating lack of both vision and understanding of the context, scale and urgency of the task before us. Australia produces over half of the world’s lithium yet retains less than 1% of the profit that lithium eventually delivers in final products of batteries and EVs. Why not invest in manufacturing batteries onshore? It’s a sector ripe for scaling, something we’re told time and again that we can’t do. Why?” Read more
Community benefits can be captured in renewables projects through local content requirements
A coalition including leading union, investor, energy, industry and First Nations peak groups has called on the federal government to embed requirements for locally produced and supplied components into all renewable energy supply chain manufacturing and development to ensure the benefits of the energy transition are returned to local communities, businesses, workers and the Australian domestic economy as a whole. Read more
Investment in local economy as national security
Satya Tanner, CEO Australia LAUTEC, presented on decarbonisation investment as a national security priority at the Smart Energy Council conference in March 2024 Read more
