Batteries not included
Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs
Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas
Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…
Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap
Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…
ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry
Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…
Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders
Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…
Victoria’s looming energy disaster
A centrepiece of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ campaign is to renationalise Victoria’s privately owned electricity businesses. He claims that the…
Our retreat from rational economics
In today’s world, government spending accounts for up to and (in the EU) over 50 per cent of GDP –…
Greta and her green-communism
Many breathed a sigh of relief when Greta Thunberg announced she was not going to attend COP 27 Climate Change…
Andrews’ Leninist approach to power
Last week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews paraded his inner Lenin. He attacked Victoria’s privately owned coal generation businesses, claiming that…
Dirty dependency: superannuation and ESG
There is nothing green about the big end of town pursuing ESGs instead of energy solutions
Dead-weight drowning productivity
The green investments that threaten our future with their failures
The price of environmental activism
The myth of cheap renewables is starting to add up
Argentina’s socialist demons are coming for the West
How did we arrive at the position where, throughout the Western world, political decisions to undermine the cheapest and most…
The sharp decline since Paris
Returning from the 2015 Paris Agreement, former Clinton Energy chief Joe Romm, proclaimed: ‘You know, change happens slowly, until it happens…
Dangerous energy politics
Electricity has properties that require supply and demand to always balance every few seconds. This means, firstly, that there has…
Transition teething problem or permanent disaster?
Politicians, regulators, and subsidy-seekers portray the present difficulties in the energy market as being part of the transition from fossil…
A mild case of split portfolio disorder
As a one-time senior public servant, I find the debate over Scott Morrison’s supposed power seizure of separate ministries to…
Labor’s Climate Bill is an economic precipice
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Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most
Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…
Europeans punished by expensive renewables backed by Russian gas
Europeans are now paying heavily for their shift in abandoning coal and nuclear and adopting renewable energy supported by Russian…
The (expensive) brave new world of ‘clean energy’
The market was working pretty well 20 years ago and is not expected to be much larger by 2030. It…
Climate Justice? Victoria’s fresh assault on businesses
Last week’s restoration of the electricity market, following the regulator assuming full control on June 15, means the energy crisis…
Climate Change’s ‘Pigouvian’ tax
Rod Sims, formerly head of the ACCC, advocates a carbon tax as a ‘Pigouvian’ solution to the global damage which he…
Standard of living to fall sharply
In the pre-Covid days, strike activity was fast disappearing. In Europe, the average days lost from strikes more than halved.…
Albo’s war against Capitalism
Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…
