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ANU Energy News amp EventsFebruary 2019

Dear reader

Happy New Year to you from all of us at the Energy Change Institute

The renewables revolution continues in 2019 with some interesting predictionsfrom influential analyst firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance According toBNEF Australia is on track to become the biggest home battery market in theworld with more than 70000 Australian households installing batteries in 2019- driven by $147M (AUD) in state government subsidies and other incentivesThis accounts for 30 of global battery storage demand from a country with acomparatively small population

Internationally BNEF predicts that the world will add between 125 and141GW of new solar in 2019 compared to 109GW in 2018 The wind market isalso set to impress with a leap in new capacity from about 535GW in 2018 tomore than 70GW in 2019 Offshore wind in particular is being spurred onby large price drops and economies of scale

Closer to home we hope that you can join us for ECI Open Day taking placenext Tuesday 12 February Registrations have been extended and youcan book your place now At Open Day we will be announcing our twosecondees from the Department of the Environment and Energy sponsored byJW Land plans for the ECI Grand Challenge Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific as well as hearing the exciting research underway by the ECIs latestmembers Our two keynote speakers are international energy experts GregWilson GW Consulting formerly of the National Renewable EnergyLaboratory in the USA and Professor Armin Aberle Director Solar EnergyResearch Institute of Singapore and ECI Board Member We look forward toseeing you there

Professor Ken BaldwinDirector Energy Change Institute

Events

Art Exhibition Gaia HypothesisOpening night Fri 8 Feb 6pm

Main gallery 8 Feb - 17 Mar

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Energy Change Institute Open Day2019

Tue 12 Feb 9am - 1pm

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Australia The Renewable EnergySuperstar

Thu 14 Feb 530 - 715pm

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News

Can a growing city cut carbonemissions to zero

Prof Penny Sackett Prof Frank Jotzo

amp Prof Will Steffen 19 Jan

Canberra TImes

Global economic amp environmentaloutcomes of the Paris Agreement

Dr Weifend Liu Prof Warwick McKibbin Dr Adele

Morris amp Prof Peter Wilcoxen 7 Jan

Brookings article

Russian firm set to challenge thefuture of Australian LNG

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan 8 Jan

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Climate Update 2019 Sydney Thu 21 Feb 6 - 815pm - Read more

Adelaide Mon 4 Mar 6 - 815pm - Read more

News

Hydrogen can transition Australiainto a zero-carbon energy export

superpowerRead more

Climate change preparation keyas Canberra beats heatwave

recordCommentary by Prof Mark Howden

18 Jan Canberra Times

Heatwave conditions could befatal for outdoor workers if

temperature cut-off notintroduced expert says

Commentary by Dr Liz Hanna

18 Jan ABC News

Other newsHydro and seek Snowy Hydro 20 - Will it ever be built ABC News Commentary by Dr Matthew Stocks30 JanAre carbon emissions coming down in Australia Commentary by Prof Mark Howden amp Dr Hugh SaddlerABC News 17 DecWe canrsquot know the future cost of climate change Letrsquos focus on the cost of avoiding it instead TheConversation Dr Jack Pezzey 13 DecWatch video or listen to podcast of ldquoExplaining COP24 the Katowice Climate Change Conferencerdquo

Education and EmploymentThe Energy Change Institute is now hiring Research Fellows Applications close 13 Feb 2019Short course The climate change debate Truth lies and misconceptions

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