Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
Tony has deep experience in the energy sector. He worked at Origin Energy for 11 years, and was an adviser to the first Garnaut climate change review. He is also program director of Clean Energy Projects at the Clinton Foundation.
Wholesale power prices are falling fast – but consumers will have to wait for relief. Here’s why
Feb 08, 2024 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Wholesale power prices are falling steeply in Australia, following two years of surging prices after the Ukraine war triggered an energy crisis. New data shows annualised spot prices for power in Australias main grid fell...
Oct 11, 2023 03:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Australia has a legislated target to reduce greenhouse emissions, a federal government with commitments to increase the share of renewable electricity and reduce power prices, and a globally important economic opportunity...
Carbon pricing: it's a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone's too scared to mention it
Feb 26, 2020 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese sought to claim the climate policy high ground last week with his commitment to a net-zero emissions target by 2050. But figures on Australias emissions from the Department of the...
Dec 16, 2018 13:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Who wouldnt want cheaper power? And who wouldnt enjoy a bit of a stoush between the big bad generators and the government, trying to break them up on our behalf? Even if it was largely tangential to keeping prices...
State governments can transform Australia’s energy policy from major fail to reliable success
Nov 04, 2018 14:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
This week were exploring the state of nine different policy areas across Australias states, as detailed in Grattan Institutes State Orange Book 2018. Read the other articles in the series here. Energy policy in...
Despite the charged atmosphere, Frydenberg and Finkel have the same goal for electricity
Oct 10, 2017 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Globally in the past seven years, the cost of wind-powered generation has more than halved. Domestically, solar PV costs have dropped more than 50%. By 2020, costs of battery technologies are expected to fall 40-60% and...
Why the free market hasn't slashed power prices (and what to do about it)
Mar 14, 2017 07:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The energy sector was supposed to be the showcase for privatisation and market deregulation. Yet in 2017, this premise is being sorely tested no more so than in electricity retailing, where competition has failed to...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well