Environment by Stephen Drill
Premium Content BORIS Johnson has urged Australia to create new high-quality jobs from Perth to Penrith by signing up to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The British Prime Minister told News Corp Australia the world was on course for catastrophic global warming , including more intense bushfires, unless dirty coal was ditched. And while he said that each country s energy mix was its own decision, he flagged that nuclear power provided reliable low-carbon energy. Britain has banned the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, and plans to generate 250,000 new green jobs through a $7 billion (AUD) investment scheme, and wants to make London s City district the centre of global green finance.
Subsidy battle brewing over electric cars
Experts acknowledge there are many cheaper ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions than electric cars.
Jaguar’s I-PACE is an electric car.
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Tony Wood, one of Australia’s foremost energy experts, recently bought an I-PACE, a Jaguar electric car that can hit 100km/h in under five seconds while playing songs from his Spotify account.
Wood, an analyst at the Grattan Institute think-tank, wanted to explore alternatives to the internal combustion engine and help the planet.
He loves driving the car but has found some practical difficulties. “Getting a charging facility in an apartment building is currently a bit of a chore,” he says.
Energy retailers could pay power plants to ensure supply stability30/04/2021|8min
Energy retailers could pay the owners of coal fired power stations to guarantee future capacity under a new strategy from the federal government.
Coal and other dispatchable power plants are currently only paid on the energy they actually generate but under the proposal companies would need to buy capacity backed by a physical source to prevent blackouts and brownouts.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor on Friday delivered the government’s response to a short list of options from the Energy Security Board to redesign the country’s electrical system.
Mr Taylor told Sky News the government wants to see a continuation of the “dramatic reductions” in electricity prices which have been on the decline for 19 months in a row.