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Oklahoman High-capacity commuter rail lines converging in downtown Oklahoma City and including service to Will Rogers World Airport have taken a step toward being realized. Endorsement by the Regional Transportation Authority board on Wednesday of the RTA's Transit System Plan was one of two major developments this week. The Legislature passed and sent to the governor a measure to limit liability for transit system partners such as railroads that contract to allow commuter trains to operate on their tracks. The regional corridors outlined in the Transit Plan are intended to build on and in...

"More gas units will not increase the need for gas generation." Transmission company doubts Angus Taylor's 1,000MW Kurri Kurri gas plant will be built.

13 April 2021 Australia must rapidly decarbonisation while delivering affordable, reliable power. Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) will be important in doing this. A REZ is a cluster of generators sharing transmission infrastructure to provide a lower-cost and faster way of delivering new, renewable generation into the system. Despite their obvious benefits, REZs haven’t yet been delivered. A key reason is rules and regulations – collectively, a relic of last century’s energy grid – that don’t support building transmission infrastructure ahead of new generation and don’t require gener...

8 April 2021 Major new transmission network projects are now in doubt after the Australian Energy Market Commission formally rejected a request from network companies to allow for increased early revenues from key network upgrades. The decision could potentially kill off plans to build major new network links identified in the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System Plan, considered crucial for further investment in wind and solar projects and the transition to a renewables-dominated grid. Network companies had been hoping to front-end revenues to aid in securing finance for t...

5 April 2021 Western Australia’s main grid distributes as much electricity as the South Australian and Tasmanian grids combined. It currently uses 75 per cent fossil fuel energy and contributes 10 million tonnes per year to Australian’s Co2 emissions. This is the third of my series of articles on WA’s Whole of System Plan (WoSP) for electricity to 2040. You can find the others here and here. In this article, we will compare fossil fuel use and emissions under two WoSP scenarios compared to a cost- optimised transition to 85% renewable energy (RE) by 2030 and 100% RE by 2040. The WoSP as...