What a journey! 10 years ago almost 40% of UK electricity was from coal. Today the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station is Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, which is scheduled to close on September 30, 2024. Data @EmberClimate

I'm giving a seminar at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy on 24 September (hybrid) - all welcome: acde.crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/ev… ANU Crawford School of Public Policy ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Matt Kean at the ANU Energy Update: "a system built on renewables is the best and most reliable way" #ANUenergyupdate The Hon. Matt Kean

When it's sunny and windy (such as now), coal now contributes well less than one-third of power generation in the NEM explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem Open Electricity

There is some very cheap wholesale electricity available at the moment aemo.com.au/en/energy-syst… AEMO #economics

Missed the ANU Energy Update this week? In this thread 🧵catch up on event recordings to hear from: The Hon. Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority 📺youtube.com/watch?v=U92HSP… Frank Jotzo, ICEDS Head of Energy & Professor ANU Crawford School of Public Policy 📺youtube.com/watch?v=xvQppn…

Applications are open for Crawford economics programs for next year: acde.crawford.anu.edu.au/coursework

If we believe revealed preferences, you can trust me when I say this is a wonderful place for your graduate study in economics. Wonderful students, faculty, location. Small groups. Completely hybrid and we are good at it, so you can study, well, from anywhere.

I'll be presenting on clean energy opportunities at the CIEMB Conference in Hanoi: ciemb.neu.edu.vn

My colleagues at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy just gave me a warm welcome home by participating 1.5-hour seminar and giving me many insightful questions that greatly improved my paper. I absolutely love that, and I’m grateful to be an economist.

👀 malaysia will introduce a carbon tax for iron, steel & energy industries by 2026. proceeds from the tax will be utilised to finance green technology programmes and research — and protect the country for carbon border taxes. theedgemalaysia.com/node/730766

The energy transition has moved quickly in South Australia's electricity sector reneweconomy.com.au/from-zero-to-1… Renew Economy

HECS debt reductions almost entirely benefit those persons in the top 40% (income) but repayments (HELP) are very small relative to other effective tax rate sources.

Australia's unhappy record with infrastructure cost blowouts ... a short history (for those thinking building a fleet of nuclear power plants will come in on-budget and on-time)... a 🧵

Meanwhile, solar, wind & storage projects are lining up to enter Australia's grid reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-gets-lion-… #nem

Excited to share that I’ve joined Cecil Stewart as of Jan 2025 to lead the Australia South Asia Research Centre (@ASARC_ANU). Looking forward to engaging with colleagues and partners on South Asia’s economic and policy challenges! #ANU #ASARC

Some of our first ACDE seminars for the year are looking pretty great, in case you want to pop them in your calendar! 25 Feb. Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony, with Abu Siddique (joint with the RSE, in person only) crawford.anu.edu.au/event/leveragi…

U.S. international assistance saves lives and strengthens America by stopping the spread of infectious diseases like Polio and Ebola before they reach our borders, preventing children from starvation, and keeping millions healthy by providing access to HIV treatments. As a

All the key factors making IKN inadvisable, from the 2019 Indonesia Update by Professor Paul Burke ANU Crawford School of Public Policy ANU Indonesia Project & Martin Siyaranamual Universitas Padjadjaran. youtu.be/sIKKtpuR3Zc?si…

Economics might seem -- from the outside -- like it's about competition. But really it's about creating the miracle of cooperation, where folks from all around the world enrich your day in a million tiny ways. It's that beauty that I'm worried about losing.