Tag: GenCost

Renewables still cheapest in CSIRO’s revised modelling

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Renewables remain the cheapest new form of electricity generation, the CSIRO has again shown, even when accounting for decarbonised system costs that critics of the previous modelling claimed could...

Nuclear still twice the cost of renewables, CSIRO finds

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Renewables are the lowest cost new electricity generation technology in Australia, the national science agency has reaffirmed, while nuclear would be from two to six times as expensive. The...

Renewables remain at half the cost of nuclear: CSIRO

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Renewables continue to be the cheapest new-build electricity-generating technology, while nuclear power is around twice as expensive and has “no unique cost advantages” from its long operational life, despite...

Does GenCost match-fix Australia’s energy transition?

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
What are we to make of the increasing volume and intensity of competing ‘facts’ about Australia’s green energy transition, how to achieve it and at what cost? I mean,...

Debate the policy, but don’t disparage science: CSIRO

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton has publicly defended the integrity of the national science agency and its scientists after Opposition leader Peter Dutton on Tuesday attacked the organisation over...