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Chris Uhlmann’s windy “truthiness” adds to policy fog

Last Tuesday evening, after an unseasonably warm day in South Australia, Chris Uhlmann, one of the country’s most influential political…

6 min readApr 18, 2018

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simon holmes à court

Why Liddell is likely to close in 2022, and why you shouldn’t care

Out of respect for wishes of the RSL and the family of an Australian energy pioneer, the newly formed bomb-throwing “ginger group” needs a…

5 min readApr 9, 2018

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simon holmes à court

No longer ‘alternative’, mainstream renewables are pushing prices down

On the first day of autumn tens of thousands of Victorians received a welcome surprise from their power company — their electricity bills…

4 min readMar 16, 2018

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simon holmes à court

It’d be wonderful if the claims made about carbon capture were true

The International Energy Agency warned this week that, under current energy policies, Australia is unlikely to meet its 2030 climate…

4 min readFeb 16, 2018

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simon holmes à court

Frydenberg Factcheck: Is S.A really burning 80,000l of diesel an hour to keep lights on?

If you were unlucky enough to catch Josh Frydenberg’s recent ‘car crash’ of an interview, where he tried to spin Australia’s fourth…

6 min readJan 22, 2018

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simon holmes à court

NSW’s largest windfarm highlights power of community investment

In the early days of windfarming, carpetbaggers almost ruined it for everyone.

4 min readJan 19, 2018

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simon holmes à court

A great year for clean energy in Australia ends, while bad news for coal continues | Simon Holmes à…

In 20 years we’ll look back on 2017 as a turning point for the climate challenge. It hasn’t been all good news — carbon emissions increased…

5 min readDec 30, 2017

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simon holmes à court

Vestas, CWP get serious about plan to export 3GW wind and solar to Asia

In November 2009 Prof. Mike Sandiford, the founding director of the newly established Melbourne Energy Institute, wrote a short paper…

6 min readNov 30, 2017

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simon holmes à court

Forget COAG — how durable is Coalition support for the NEG?

The ESB’s report on the first-cut NEG modelling predicts:

5 min readNov 24, 2017

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Forget COAG — how durable is Coalition support for the NEG?

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simon holmes à court

Back to square one in energy policy: we now have a plan to produce a plan | Simon Holmes à Court

A year and a day — that’s how long it took Frydenberg to kill off “Finkel”.

5 min readOct 25, 2017

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simon holmes à court

simon holmes à court

data-driven energy transition specialist: sharing knowledge, informing opinions. change is inevitable: it’s just a question of speed.

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