Mass storage is a solved problem
18 May 2022
An article by Andrew Blakers appeared in Energy Central today.
Renewables snapshot – Are we on track to decarbonise the globe?
16 May 2022
An article by Andrew Blakers appeared in Renew Economy today, exploring the current growth rates of solar and wind, and the work ahead to build out renewables to electrify everything and decarbonise...
Renewables in 2021
26 Apr 2022
An article by Andrew Blakers appeared in Energy Central today, detailing the renewable electricity capacity increases in 2021.
Australia plans to be a big green hydrogen exporter to Asian markets – but they don’t need it
4 Apr 2022
An article by Andrew Blakers and Cheng Cheng appeared in the Conversation today, and has been republished in Renew Economy.
Win over renewable naysayers in Indonesia
14 Mar 2022
An article by Ryan Wong and David Silalahi appeared in Fulcrum today, exploring the need for renewable energy in Indonesia, and the likely affordable cost. Indonesia could reap huge benefits from using...
Big battery plans for Pilbara ignore massive pumped-hydro potential
14 Feb 2022
An article by Andrew Blakers appeared in Renew Economy today, in response to the news that Fortescue Metals Group plan to build a 5.4 GW solar and wind project in the Pilbara,...
Batteries get hyped, but pumped hydro provides the vast majority of long-term energy storage essential for renewable power – ...
20 Jan 2022
This article by Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu, and Matthew Stocks appeared in The Conversation today.
Getting real about the hydrogen economy
3 Jan 2022
An article by Cheng Cheng and Andrew Blakers was published on East Asia Forum today.
Barnaby Joyce has refused to support doubling Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction targets – but we could get there so cheapl...
19 Oct 2021
This article by Andrew Blakers appeared in The Conversation today.
Indonesia could harvest solar energy from 10 billion panels. So where do we put them?
28 Sep 2021
This article by David Firnando Silalahi and Andrew Blakers appeared in The Conversation today. The image above is from Unsplash.