25th breakdown this yr at VIC brown coal power station Loy Yang A! Unit 4 also out. Highlights the absurdity of keeping old coal staggering along for “reliability”. Maybe someone from Monash Forum could go do some repairs? Before summer would be good.. #gasandcoalwatch #auspol

⚡Wow. Just wow. This just has to be seen to be believed. I encourage you to watch the entire 2 mins. This is not Clarke + Dawe. This is reality today. Good on you David Speers for doing a fantastic journalist job & not letting him off the hook. #MediaPower #FairDinkumPower

Any government that commits to underwriting a new coal-fired power station is both economically & environmentally wreckless. And surely punished at the ballot box. #auspol #VicVotes

Nous avons décidé de fermer l’ensemble de nos centrales à charbon d’ici 2022. Il s’agit d’une mesure pionnière ! Car la réalité, c’est que, partout dans le monde hélas, non seulement on ne ferme pas, mais on ouvre de nouvelles centrales à charbon.

While Australians are calling out for climate change action the Liberals are washing their hands of responsibility to future generations. sbs.com.au/news/pollution…

Top Australian corruption fighter David Ipp AO QC on Government's Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC) proposal: its the "kind of integrity commission that you would have when you don't want to have an integrity commission" #auspol smh.com.au/national/so-ma…

Wind turbine manufacturing will be returning to Aus after a decade away - in a new home at the former Ford factory in Geelong We’ve always said renewable energy is ✅Good for the environment ✅Good for the economy and now it’s also ✅Good for Geelong jobs #springst #VRET

Energy Minister Angus Taylor called me last night, though unfortunately he wasn’t willing to talk on-the-record so we couldn’t proceed with an interview. As such we received no answers to the new written questions posed. The call was re this:

Very excited to see our work on the different types of El Niño published today Nature Geoscience showing dramatic changes of El Niño towards more Central and stronger Eastern Pacific El Niño events @unimelb Monash Science @uow ANU Earth Sciences 🌏 CSIRO #climatechange NASA NOAA

Another investor-owned #electricity utility pledges to be 100% carbon-neutral by 2050: Madison Gas & Electric pledges net zero emissions madison.com/wsj/news/local… Last year, the company's electricity was 52% coal-fired and 10.5% renewable, so this is a major step.

Cracking new figuring from IRENA's recently published "Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2018" - based on cost and auction price data. Note the cost reductions in CSP which we don't often hear about (caught me by surprise)!

The Coopers Gap Wind farm is just starting to come through some of the AEMO data feeds. When fully complete, the 452MW wind farm will overtake the 420MW Macarthur Wind Farm in Victoria (currently largest in Southern Hemisphere), and more than triple the amount of wind in QLD!

😱 “It’s only progressives that fall for the least cost claptrap.” 👉👉 This really is devastatingly good and important from @RDNS_TAI Australia Institute theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Almost 300 punters at #cleanenergysummit2019 reckon coal phase out in the nem is possible by 2035-2040.

Interesting the number of ppl who say we shouldn’t bother with emission reduction because we’re only 1.5% of global total. Presumably they also ignore water restrictions because just one house, and also drop litter in the street.

BREAKING NEWS: This legislation just passed both houses of Parliament.

@AndrewDillon_EN @AEMO_Media I am sure you can get it to work if you get a $1.4bn subsidy from the Fed's, and someone else to pay for your network infrastructure.

Omg ⁦The Sydney Morning Herald⁩ “putuwa - to warm ones hands by the fire and then gently squeeze the fingers of another person to transfer the warmth.” #alwayswasalwayswillbe smh.com.au/culture/books/…

Rooftop PV is up about 30% year on year in November. Prompted me to look at historical growth. Never unimpressed by these. Open Electricity

“An old growth forest is neither an assemblage of stoic organisms nor a merciless battle royal; it’s a vast, ancient and intricate society. There is conflict in the forest but there is also negotiation, reciprocity and perhaps even selflessness.” smh.com.au/environment/su…