Grandfathers Axe or Low Hanging Fruit?
Upgrading our existing coal thermal fleet to increase efficiency and flexibility could provide a cost-effective opportunity to add dispatchable capacity and lower the overall carbon intensity of our...
CO2 emissions
If you increase your consumption of energy at a time when average emissions intensity is low, you’re not necessarily doing a good thing for the environment
A quick note about the need to avoid focusing on average emissions intensity (for the wrong reasons) and losing sight of the fact that it's the emissions intensity...
Challenges with Emissions Monitoring for Power Generation
Our guest author (Don Sands) compares and contrasts 9 different methods used for measurement of carbon emissions at thermal power stations
Who are the biggest carbon emitters, in the National Electricity Market?
Some analysis of carbon emissions for large generation portfolios in the NEM, and comparison with prior post about wind production levels.
One week into the Carbon Tax – how have emissions changed?
Now that we’re through the first week of Australia’s new Carbon Tax, we thought it would be of interest to have a look at whether there has been...
AFR says “Emissions have fallen"! Here’s some more data…
Some analysis prompted by a short article in the AFR talking about a reduction in emissions over summer 2009-10 (with the possible implication being that emissions have turned...