Ketan Joshi
Don’t listen to Norway: CCS will lock in fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis
If you hear it as it’s told by Norway’s Ambassador to Australia, Anne Grete Riise, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been a mind-blowing success over here where I live, in the land of brown cheese and black oil. But the interview paints a dangerously overstated view, failing to highlight the reality of how CCS has played out in Norway. Not only are we not a ‘best case’, but we also demonstrate the ways in which CCS can distract from real decarbonisation efforts.
Part Three: Why CCS subsidies are a perpetual scam
Welcome to CCS week. Leaders in the carbon capture, transport, storage and utilisation industry are gathering at the “CO2CRC” conference in Melbourne.
The core case for gas plummets into a screaming death spiral - Part 2
In Q4 2024, the average wholesale earnings [RC5] of batteries discharging was higher than gas. In Q4 2025, that has flipped.
The core case for gas plummets into a screaming death spiral - Part 1
For decades, fossil fuel advocates have been pushing the line that we “need” to burn methane as a ‘vital component of the energy transition’. It is an ancient talking point, predicated on the idea that integrating wind and solar power can only be done by using fossil methane-fuelled turbines, which can be turned up and down with some degree of flexibility and adjustability.
