Energy companies work in a twilight industry where demand is not fading. They don’t know the answers to the demands investor activists are making.
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It was a confected outrage. Woodside hadn’t broken any laws or breached any fiduciary standards. The trigger for the pile on was that some pension fund investors thought Woodside’s climate action plan wasn’t ambitious enough. A new paper by economists Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore modelled what Australian electricity markets will need to replace the capacity of theEven with continued scale up of renewables, more batteries and pumped hydro, a future renewables grid will need a significant increase in gas generation and supply to get it through periods of low renewable generation, mostly during winter.
This is what gas as a transition fuel means. That global emissions decrease while gas production increases, as the combination of renewables, storage and gas replace high emissions coal.That’s only an interim solution, with hopes that hydrogen or its derivatives can be developed to replace the role of gas in electricity and other industrial systems in the same way that nuclear or renewables can replace coal.
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