An analysis of current energy demand in the Pilbara and the need to accelerate electrification and decarbonisation in the region. The report finds that rapid deployment of renewables projects should be a strategic policy and investment priority for industry, government, regulatory and investment stakeholders and provides recommendations for each.

This briefing note highlights recent technological advances that have made renewables one of the country’s fastest growing industries, and Australia a world leader in battery storage.

Global capital is fleeing the thermal coal sector, according to this report which calculates that today, over 100 globally significant financial institutions have divested from thermal coal, including 40% of the top 40 global banks and 20 globally significant insurers.

China continued to be a global leader of investment in clean energy projects in 2017, defying an overall slowdown in Chinese overseas investment as the country further positioned itself to dominate in new energy technologies.

Whoever wins the coming federal election will have no choice but to deal with the beginning of the end of coal.