Australia needs renewable energy fast – but building it is only half the battle

By Mingming Cheng, Professor, School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
Peta Ashworth, Professor and Director, Curtin Institute for Energy Transition, Curtin University

Australia’s energy transition has never been more urgent.

Aging coal-fired power stations are retiring and energy bills are rising sharply. To address this, the obvious solution is to build more renewable energy projects and the transmission infrastructure to connect them at scale.

But a major hurdle remains: community opposition. In regional areas, where…

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