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Decarbonising Electricity

Podcasts, Conferences and Media

Podcasts and Radio

Maltz, M., with Müller, K. and Pampus, M. ‘Social contexts for Brandenburg renewable energy’, forthcoming for 2021.

Morcom, J. with Ghosh, D. ‘Pavagada: Asia’s largest solar park’, forthcoming for 2021.

Hadfield, P., with Bryant, G. and Lumsden, L. ‘The South Australian Miracle‘, BBC Radio 4, Costing The Earth, 4 May 2021.

Morton, T. and Morcom, J. ‘Is a just transition from coal to renewables possible?‘, The Guardian, 26 October 2019.

Waltz, M. and Morton T. ‘Australien. Indien. Lausitz. Brennpunkte im Kampf um die Kohle‘, Deutschlandfunk Dossier, 18 November 2016.

Morton, T. ‘Beyond the Coal Rush’, Radio National, Science Show, 27 Aug 2016:

  1. Beyond the coal rush part 1: The march of coal
  2. Beyond the coal rush part 2: The age of coal
  3. Beyond the coal rush part 3: The transition begins

Conferences and workshops

Opportunity? Renewable Energy in the Upper Spencer Gulf, Port Augusta, 21 June 2021, Community forum.

Socio-ecological relations of the Energy Transition in India, Germany and Australia, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, held in Kanpur 12-13 November 2019. Co-hosted with Climate Justice Research Centre, UTS, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Advocacy For Energy Transitions – Mapping The Dynamics, Climate Justice Research Centre, UTS, and the Australian the Academy of Social Sciences, held in Sydney, 25-6 October 2018.

The Coal Rush and Beyond: A Workshop on Coal Contestation and Advocacy, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, held in Potsdam, 13-14 November 2017.

Beyond The Coal Rush: Climate Justice Research Centre Launch and Forum, Climate Justice Research Centre, UTS, held in Sydney 17 August, 2017.

Media

Marshall, J.P. ‘Technological magic by Morrison and Taylor won’t help the Australian response to the IPCC report‘, Pearls and Irritations, 15 August 2021.

Morton, T., Goodman, J., Müller, K., Heikkinen, R. ‘Forest Wind and Australia’s renewables revolution: how big clean energy projects risk leaving local communities behind‘, The Conversation, 24 August 2020.

Morton, T., Goodman, J., Marshall, J.P., Müller, K., Heikkinen, R. ‘People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs‘, The Conversation, 19 June 2020.

Marshall, J.P. ‘Confusions of Australian Energy Policy‘, Pearls and Irritations, 24 February 2020.

Morton, T. ‘As South Australia now knows, local jobs must be a priority in the clean energy transition‘, The Guardian, 26 October 2019.

Morton, T. ‘Battle for Liverpool Plains: Chinese coal project tears at fabric of rural NSW‘, The Guardian, 26 February 2015.