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Jorrit Gosens

@jorritgosens.bsky.social
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Fellow on Energy Transitions at the Crawford School, Australian National University

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Hormuz Strait crisis and its effect on energy prices has been making headlines for months now. We’ve analysed what maritime chokepoints could do to global trade in coal. Pre-print here: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.00328 With @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social & @frankjotzo.bsky.social .
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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Peter Hartcher is calling this the first reform budget in 26 years (I think the emissions trading scheme was a major reform, but it obviously didn’t survive. I also think the energy transformation is undersold. But it’s mostly been tinkering + crises management) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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The era of serious economic reform in Australia has been dead for 25 years. But this week, a pulse was detected
With both government and opposition pitching serious proposals for change, our political system is actually offering hope.
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Tom Longden @tomecon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Australian Cheaper Home Batteries 🔋 ⚡ program has led to a 'battery rush' 📈 disproportionately benefiting those living in major city postcodes with high socio-economic status and a history of high solar installs 🪫🔌🫤. 🧪Paper is now online and ready to read and share via doi.org/10.13140/RG....
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/05/2026
The normalcy bias we're all experiencing for global sea-surface temperatures becomes apparent if we look at the graph of SSTs 1982-2026 and remove the last three years 2023, 2024, 2025 from the picture:
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Wonder what the over/under on that will be
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Tom Longden @tomecon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Online now - The Right to Power - Keeping First Nations communities on prepayment connected researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfil... @firstnationscen.bsky.social @cleanenergywire.bsky.social @climatenews.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co 🧪🔌⚡
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sonia aggarwal @soniaaggarwal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Strong reporting on this from @timogard.bsky.social‬
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Coal used to make steel gets break in Trump's tax bill
Coal used to make steel got a break in the latest version of President Donald Trump's tax bill, a subsidy that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars over 10 years for a fuel that is mostly exported to countries including China.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sky news talking heads in their usual abrasive tone arguing that the election was lost because the libs were far too mildly insane and trumpian. The one point I agree with: whoever becomes the leader of the libs is who will loose the next election (6:30). Lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5L2...
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‘Absolutely historic’: Coalitions loss was due to Dutton's ‘unappealing’ nature
YouTube video by Sky News Australia
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I talked China and green steel on the Energy Insiders podcast with David Leitch. We discussed opportunities for Australia to become an exporter of green iron to China, the technologies involved, and the relevance of ore qualities. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
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China and green steel
Podcast Episode · Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast · 24/04/2025 · 59m
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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement. "We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
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Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
More evidence that hydrogen plans rollout are stuttering. Thankfully it's about hydrogen-fired power plants this time though, which are a wasteful use of the resource anyway.
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Nature Energy @natenergy.nature.com · 17/01/2025
A new study from @adrianodenweller.bsky.social and @falkoueckerdt.bsky.social quantifies the green hydrogen ambition and implementation gap, finding that meeting expectations will remain challenging and costly. bit.ly/40mppIh
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The green hydrogen ambition and implementation gap - Nature Energy
Green hydrogen is critical for hard-to-electrify sectors, but faces economic headwinds. Odenweller and Ueckerdt quantify green hydrogen ambition and implementation gaps, showing that meeting expectations will remain challenging and costly.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/01/2025
I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking. Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled. What’s driving this? Read on! 🧵
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a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol
Alt: a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Great to see even Xinhua agency cover this peak celebration of Australian culture english.news.cn/20250103/e63...
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Album: Summernats car festival in Australia
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The opposition's nuclear policy fails on bringing cheaper power, fails on emission reduction (it requires coal plants to operate for far longer) and also fails on reliability as those plants are far too old to operate to or past 2035, as their owners also say. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If you’re confused about Albo and Plibersek’s approach to coal, hope this helps x
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
News from IEA is that coal consumption may not fall over next 3 years (as predicted last year) but plateau instead. Big movement in China especially, last year a 205 Mt drop, this year a 66 Mt increase for next 3 years. Good news is all of this is dependent on reneables growth, see plot
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Coalition spelling it out very clearly that their option is a lot more dirtier than the current plan. The nuclear path leads to higher emissions.
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We should stop describing CCS as "commercially unproven" . It's been proved unworkable and commercially non-viable www.abc.net.au/news/...? (via Coalwire)
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Bid to turn Latrobe Valley's coal into hydrogen hits major roadblock
A world-first bid to turn the Latrobe Valley's brown coal into hydrogen hits a massive hurdle, after a major international partner backs out of a trial in the region.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Good to see a terrible ideas getting axed for once. Even if because of cost concerns rather than the lack of any real emission reductions as ANU reseachers have pointed out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Also after quite a bit of gov't money had been spent www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Bid to turn Latrobe Valley's coal into hydrogen hits major roadblock
A world-first bid to turn the Latrobe Valley's brown coal into hydrogen hits a massive hurdle, after a major international partner backs out of a trial in the region.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Don't understand how anyone would have been able to gather all that wealth in the first place, if you're this reckless. Also probably really good timing to cash out on the craze as the meme started to die down I guess.
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Australian Renewable Energy News @solardirectory.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of modules every 4 days. #solarpanels www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/jinkoso...
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JinkoSolar Clocks Up 300GW Of Panel Shipments
Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of its PV modules every 4 days.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
ABC's good news story of the day for younger folks struggling to buy a home: just live in with your parents for a few years and then buy a 4 br house for 450k because that exists in some corners of this country apparently www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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'We saved for this': Young couple crack housing dream
Meatworkers Jordan Cullinane, 23, and Remi Krahenbring, 25, knew they didn't want to be paying off someone else's mortgage, so they put their heads down and started saving.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We're looking for a Centre Administrator for the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy (CCEP) at ANU Crawford School. It's an all round position. Part-time up to 3 days per week. Flexible work arrangements. Job level ANU 6/7. Apply by 12 Dec. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/centre-...
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Centre Administrator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Officer 6/7 (Administration)Salary package: $91,362-$105,165 per annum (pro rata) plus 17% superannuationTerms: Part time (up to 21 hours per week), Contingent (contingent funded)T...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's not that long ago that EU and US gov't complained about Chinese demands for IPR transfers in exchange for market access, as well as about preferential treatment of domestic manufacture, saying it wasn't compliant with WTO. The only thing that's changed is their relative competitivenes I think.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I remember this was laughed away by anyone in industry or academia when this came out. 20 MW turbines were a fantasy: www.upwind.eu/Upwind-Repor... Mingyang installed a 20 MW turbine, Dongfang produced a 26 MW last month, and Sany is preparing for 35 MW machines: www.rechargenews.com/wind/china-u...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Well if this was what was needed to get past those reviewers then why not? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
China’s government establishes state-owned recycling company. Steel scrap is set to become an increasingly valuable resource in a decarbonising world. www.recyclingtoday.com/news/china-g...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A simple flowchart of conventional and green steel production routes. From: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2024
dirt-cheap solar is going to have revolutionary effects in poor nations currently dependent on fossil fuel imports heatmap.news/economy/paki...
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Pakistan Is Only the Beginning of the Cheap Solar Revolution
No need for expensive imported fuel when your energy is coming from the sun.
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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system. No matter how much intent there might be to activate a nuclear power industry, it is difficult to envision before 2040 | Dr Alan Finkel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s why there is no nuclear option for Australia to reach net zero | Alan Finkel
Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
ANU-Tsinghua Australia-China decarbonisation roundtable, on steel and renewables value chains. In Beijing and online, morning of 8 May. Register: app.glueup.cn/event/austra... PM or email for in person attendance. Supported by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Current climate models fail to explain the big jump in global avg temperatures over 2023. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed. Taking into account all known factors, the pl...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
“As far as we can see … all validated and independent data that exists on costs say that it (nuclear) is a very expensive source of energy. And I think in Australia, certainly, we’ve got low cost wind and solar, and we were going to run with that.” reneweconomy.com.au/australias-b...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
China power stats 2023 via NBS (part of full stats communique, in English: stats.gov.cn/english/Pres...) 610 TWh or 6.9% growth in power generation. Coal-fired power met 375 TWh or 62% of additional demand. Solar and wind met 280 TWH or 46% of additional demand.
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
I remember the panic about sea surface temps last year. First time global avg above 21 deg, and a 0.4 deg jump vs previous records. We're already another 0.4 degree above that record year, and above 21 deg avg now, with N hemisphere summer still months away Graph from pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Time to bury these EV myths about limited range or utility thedriven.io/2024/02/28/c...
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“Cheaper than a mince pie:” Tradie charges up electric digger then tows it to work with his Tesla
Electric earthmoving equipment towed by an electric vehicle. No noise, no dangerous air pollution. Sounds like every tradie’s dream!
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Did a lap of the island, great wind today to ride upwind hard
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
China's State Council, in Air pollution plan published just yesterday: No new steel production capacity. www.gov.cn/zhengce/cont...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/12/2023
It would be genuinely very funny if Australia promised to triple its nuclear capacity from 0 MW to 0 MW www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia backs Cop28 promise to triple renewables but not nuclear capacity pledge
More than 115 countries vow to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 – though not China and India
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Unsurprising but pretty brazen. Maybe next time hold a climate convention in a country where political leadership is not captured by fossil fuel interests. Like Australia. 😬
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
NuScale, industry leader in Small Modular Reactor tech, sees its flagship project cancelled. Promised to deliver first power by 2030, at US$89 or A$140/MWh. 2-3x what CSIRO says wind/solar/integration will be for Australia: www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/csi... www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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NuScale ends Utah project, in blow to US nuclear power ambitions | Reuters
NuScale Power said on Wednesday it has mutually agreed with a municipal power group in Utah to terminate the company's small modular reactor project, dealing a blow to U.S. ambitions for a new wave of...
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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Making pretty maps of Canberra's home energy efficiency ratings patterns.
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