Media

Decarbonising Electricity

Podcasts, Conferences and Media

Podcasts and Radio

Bryant, G., Ghosh, D. and Pillai, P. ‘Lessons from India’s Pavagada Solar Plant’, The Conversation, Article and Podcast, September 2022.

Waltz, M., with Müller, K. ‘Ausbau Erneuerbarer EnergienWie auf dem Land über neue Windräder gestritten wird‘, Deutschlandfunk, Podcast, 22 July 2022.

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

Problems and Solutions for Decarbonisation and Energy Transition: a Cross-National Dialogue, Online Conference December 7-9, 2021

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

Morton, T. ‘The Hunter Jobs Alliance‘, The Saturday Paper (forthcoming).

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.

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Podcast: Solar Power Contestation in India

What does renewable energy look like for communities at the frontlines of the transition? In this podcast released via The Conversation, accompanied by a journal article in Globalizations, and policy report, we explore this question through the case of one of India’s, and the world’s, biggest solar parks.

Credits

Narrated by Prof Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney. Produced by Jake Morcom audio producer for the ABC, Guardian Australia, Radio National, Southern Cross Austereo and more. He was series producer for Guardian Australia's five-part series called 'Australia v the Climate' during the '21 Glasgow COP.