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.
Australia can achieve rapid, deep and cheap emission cuts from tech we have now
7 Sep 2021
This article by Andrew Blakers appeared in Renew Economy today.
Indonesia’s Vast Solar Energy Potential
31 Aug 2021
An article by David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng and Liam Hayes has been published in Energies. Please see the abstract below, and read the article here....
Low-cost, low-emission 100% renewable electricity in Southeast Asia supported by pumped hydro storage
2 Jul 2021
An article by Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, and Thang Nam Do has been published in Energy. Please see the abstract below, and read the article here.
Net zero by 2050 only possible if renewables ramp up
17 Mar 2021
Australia will not achieve net zero emissions until well after 2050 at the rate emissions are declining, experts from The Australian National University (ANU) warn.
100% Renewable Energy interview with Nicolas Charbonnier
24 Feb 2021
Professor Andrew Blakers spoke with Nicolas Charbonnier about how to implement a 100% Renewable Energy future as recently declared by the https://global100restrategygroup.org/. This involves building a lot of off river pumped hydro...