Not everyone is going to be better off at the back end of the current oil price cycle. Introduction The fall in oil prices in the second half of 2014 was both dramatic and unexpected, bringing to an end a four-year period of relative stability. As recently as October 2014, the World Bank forecast crude...

This audit examined the effectiveness of the administration of the Ethanol Production Grants Program (EPGP). Objective, criteria and scope The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of Industry’s administration of the EPGP, including relevant advice on policy development. To form a conclusion against the objective, the following high level audit criteria were...

Remote Australia – an area that covers 85% of the continent but houses just 2.3% of its adult population (ABS 2014) – is considered distant from many markets and centres of power. Remote Australia’s social distance puts a premium on local knowledge and technical and social innovations to address problems that mainstream approaches may fail...

The World Coal Association released this concept paper in December 2014 on establishing a Platform for Accelerating Coal Efficiency (PACE). The vision of PACE would be that for countries choosing to use coal, the most efficient power plant technology possible is deployed. The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal-fired...

This report argues that Australia is not realising its wind energy potential and is currently generating far less energy from wind power than many European countries.