Professor Paul Burke

Research highlights

• Teng, Meixuan, Liao, Hua, Burke, Paul J., Chen, Tianqi and Zhang, Chen, 2022, Adaptive responses: The effects of temperature levels on residential electricity use in China, Climatic Change, 172, 32.
• Do, Thang Nam, Burke, Paul J., Hughes, Llewelyn, Thi, Ta Dinh, 2022, Policy options for offshore wind power in Vietnam, Marine Policy 141, 105080.
• Best, Rohan and Burke, Paul J, 2022, Effects of renting on household energy expenditure: Evidence from Australia, Energy Policy, 166, 113022.
• Hammerle, Mara and Burke, Paul J, 2022, From natural gas to electric appliances: Energy use and emissions implications in Australian homes, Energy Economics, 110, 106050.
• Burke, Paul J., Beck, Fiona J., Aisbett, Emma, Baldwin, Kenneth G.H., Stocks, Matthew, Pye, John, Venkataraman, Mahesh, Hunt, Janet, and Bai, Xuemei, 2022, Contributing to regional decarbonization: Australia’s potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific, Energy, 248, 123563.
• Zhang, Tong and Burke, Paul J, 2022, The effect of gasoline prices on suburban housing values in China, China Economic Review, 72, 101762. 

Outreach

Professor Burke presented a keynote titled ‘Australia's potential to supply zero-carbon energy to the Asia-Pacific’ at the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Conference 2022.

Media

• Do TN and Burke P,  Boosting Southeast Asia’s cross-border electricity trade, Policy Forum, 31 May.
• Do TN and Burke P, Harnessing offshore wind for green growth in Vietnam, Policy Forum, 23 May.
• Burke P, Aisbett A and Baldwin K, To really address climate change, Australia could make 27 times as much electricity and make it renewable, The Conversation, 18 March.

Dr Thomas Longden

Research highlights

The project "Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia" examines pathways to Indigenous benefit in the energy transition, beginning by grounding understanding in drivers of contemporary experiences of energy insecurity and considering opportunities for benefit across scales of clean energy development, from small to large.

Longden, T., Quilty, S., Riley, B., White, L.V., Klerck, M., Napaltjari-Davis, V., Jupurrurla-Frank, N. et al. Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia. Nature Energy 7, 43–54 (2022).

Read more here.

Public policy

<CHECK BEFORE PUBLISIHNG>The project team made a submission to the Electricity Retail Supply Code Review, the draft decison paper of the review made a number of refernces to the research (see pages 41 and 42).

Click here to read the draft decion paper

Honorary Professor Stephen Bygrave

Outreach

In August Honorary Professor Stephen Bygrave was invited by the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water to be a special advisor drafting the National Electric Vehicle Strategy. This included drafting a public consultation paper (https://consult.industry.gov.au/national-electric-vehicle-strategy) which was released on 28 September and open for public comment till 31 October.

Professor Bygrave also attended the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt as an ANU representative.

Media

• ABC Afternoon Briefing, ABC iView, 8 November. 
• Australia Will Bid To Host 2026 UN Climate Summit, Triple M, 5 November.

Dr Bec Colvin

Research highlights

Dr Bec Colvin and Ewelina Przybyszewski authored a study of the Upper Hunter region’s residents’ perspectives on local economic diversification in the context of global energy transition. Key findings include the importance of local leadership and local priorities guiding planning for the future, and the need for open and constructive dialogue in the community.

• Colvin, R. M. and E. Przybyszewski (2022). Local residents' policy preferences in an energy contested region – The Upper Hunter, Australia. Energy Policy 162: 112776.

Media

Dr Colvin also discussed findings from this study in the media:

• Social research shows Upper Hunter residents are jaded with policy planning about their future, ABC Radio.
• Hunter electorate 'forgotten' in coal energy debate in lead up to federal election, ABC News.

Awards and honours

In 2022 Dr Colvin recieved the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2023-2025, $454,532, for  “Harnessing social norms to find a socially acceptable energy transition.”