Anna Freeman

Policy Director at the Clean Energy Council (Australia), opinions my own

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

@timminchin It’s sentimental, I know. But I just really like it.

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

@timminchin Oasis take note….

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

This one is for the Earth

Happy #EarthDay2025

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Even nuclear needs to be coupled with storage…

[Rod Adams @Atomicrod]

Stating what should be obvious:

Without a large and growing electricity/energy storage infrastructure, it is impossible for nuclear plants to maintain high capacity factors once their installed capacity significantly exceeds the low points on the grid demand curves.

They might be capable of running more, but if there is insufficient demand they will have to curtail their output if they can't store it.

If you want to ONLY build large, always on nuclear plants, you are resigned to a modest market share for nuclear energy.

[Phillip Coorey @PhillipCoorey]

Dutton’s nuclear plan a $4trn hit to the economy: Chalmers https://t.co/9XUgvTxWJJ

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

@simonahac @PeterDutton_MP Simon, the fuel and O&M costs in the MIT table (US$28) is AUD $44 alone. Not sure how Frontier’s variable costs include: “fuel, fixed and variable (non-fuel), operating & maintenance costs, network costs and decommissioning costs” (pg. 7 of Frontier report).

[Clean Energy Council @cleannrgcouncil]

The Coalition’s proposed nuclear agenda would be disastrous for power bills, existing and future rooftop solar and for renewable energy investment.

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

@karinstark79 Thinking of you often dear Karin. Good on you for keeping on going. X

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Nicks plans to close the last of his company’s coal fired generators by 2035 and its Bayswater plant by 2033. The company has no intention of waiting for nuclear. “When coal goes, if we don’t get the replacement capacity in place we don’t have a business”
https://t.co/XHf6mLTUva

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

It has happened

100 days of 100% #WindWaterSolar

Sun, July 28, California reached a milestone. The world's 5th-largest economy met 100% of @California_ISO demand with >100% WWS for the 100th day since March 7. July 27 was day 99 (for 4.9 h)

Strong summer winds helped

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

@MLiebreich @ftlive @pilitaclark The @FT will be most put out by your spoiler @MLiebreich

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

High temperature industrial process heat is often described as 'hard-to-abate'.

But electrification technologies can cover very wide temperature ranges now as this graph by @FraunhoferISI shows nicely.

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Looking forward to the PM’s speech tomorrow ☀️🔋: “Government needs to have this same capacity to respond and adapt, to anticipate change – and shape it – when it comes to building for the future." https://t.co/1uwYhLrVz7

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

'Heel raar'

@AukeHoekstra, duurzaamheidsexpert en onderzoeker aan de @TUeindhoven, heeft er geen goed woord voor over dat de wegenbelasting zo hoog gaat uitvallen. Hij vindt het onverstandig. "Ik vind het echt heel raar. Het ene moment zijn we elektrische auto's heel erg aan het stimuleren, en nu schieten we weer de andere kant op. Daarmee gooien we onze koploperspositie weer weg."

Volgens Hoeksta is Nederland een gidsland geworden in de wereld op het gebied van elektrische auto's en de laadinfrastructuur. "We lopen nog steeds voorop. Nergens op de wereld zie je zoveel laadpalen. Echt iets om trots op te zijn."

Hoekstra vreest dat het nieuwe kabinet niks gaat veranderen aan de belastingmaatregel die eraan komt. De partijen die nu onderhandelen over een nieuw kabinet staan erom bekend de elektrische rijders te 'bashen', zegt hij.
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#alwaysbecharging #netherlands #BEV #taxes

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Please 🙏 let it be so - so that my year 7 daughter can enter the school toilets without having to be surrounded by smoking tweens! https://t.co/Hp7VnWmwPe

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Want a case study in the cost-efficiency of nuclear reactors? Try this one in the UK: almost two decades to build a 3.2GW power station for the eye-popping price tag of £48 billion (~$92 billion AUD)! https://t.co/rLycjtkzEo

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

“There’s more wool being produced per hectare under the solar panels than there was without them.”

https://t.co/fXiDBTuxwI

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

The old chestnut by the rearguard to “just slow it all down”. https://t.co/xj1YOyzdSd

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

“And now we’re selling, the real estate agent says the secure income from renewable energy is driving my sale price up by hundreds of thousands of dollars,” says farmer Charlie Prell.

[Anna Freeman @FreeAnna1]

Renewables & agriculture thrive from partnership: “Our family farm wasn’t financially sustainable during the drought until we hosted wind turbines. Now the farm has substantial, bankable income locked in every year whether it rains or not… https://t.co/drKnmPTdk8