Recent articles by Rachel Williamson

19 September 2025
Wind energy faces 'existential challenge' as solar and battery hybrids beat it on costs
The Australian wind industry has gathered in Melbourne to confront an uncomfortable but unavoidable truth: The cost of wind turbines has almost doubled from just a few years ago, and the technology is now being beaten on price by the combined forces of solar and battery storage.

3 September 2025
'Act of bastardry': Queensland LNP Government kills another giant wind project
The Queensland state LNP Government has scrapped another approved wind project in what is being called “an act of bastardry”, and accusations that the state is openly rejecting renewables as it moves to re-open coal country.

27 February 2025
Dutton’s stuff-ups: Nuclear plan will blow up Paris and emissions targets, CCA says
Choosing a nuclear power future over renewables will blow up Australia’s carbon emissions budget and create a carbon time bomb of up to two billion tonnes in extra greenhouse gases by 2050, a new analysis from the federal government’s Climate Change Authority says.