Paddy Manning

Future's not looking sunny

Paddy Manning Solar energy is a minor player in meeting our growing power needs.

MacGen Australia's heaviest emitter

Paddy Manning NSW power company Macquarie Generation is Australia's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to Department of Climate Change data.

Believe it and we can do it

Paddy Manning You don't need a weatherman to be told a new wind is blowing.

Why nuclear energy struggles to get private sector funds

Paddy Manning People have forgotten - a younger generation perhaps never knew - what is scary about nuclear energy.

Dealing with life in the carbon trading twilight zone

Paddy Manning Failures in Copenhagen and Canberra are filtering through.

A resourceful climate sceptic

Paddy Manning Professor Ian Plimer's mining interests are a good little earner.

Abbott's idea of direct action is business as usual

Paddy Manning Tony Abbott's new ''direct action'' climate change policy is endorsed by the Australian Coal Association. Enough said.

Rudd's green vision may yet be his undoing

Paddy Manning Time is running out for the PM to deliver on his environmental pledge.

B-minus for Kevin on green report card

Paddy Manning Kevin Rudd might pull it all off - contribute to a meaningful agreement at Copenhagen, follow through with an emissions trading scheme next year and then win a federal poll in which environment...

ETS wasn't perfect, but it was better than nothing

Paddy Manning The Liberals have to have a credible plan for climate change.

Lost opportunities from the crisis

Paddy Manning The $42bn stimulus should have focused on global warming.

$10b payout for the worst polluters? What a waste

Paddy Manning Generators have had plenty of planning time; hand-outs should stop.

World wakes to new dawn for solar power

Paddy Manning A clean, long-term energy solution turns governments back towards the sun.

With green power comes great responsibility

Paddy Manning It's time politicians listened to scientists on wind and solar power.

Ceramic Fuel Cells opens German factory

Paddy Manning ASX-listed alternative energy company Ceramic Fuel Cells opened its factory in Germany on Friday.

Green, but in the pink financially

Paddy Manning Cutting emissions is unlikely to hurt International Power.

Best solution? Buy Hazelwood and mothball it

Paddy Manning Actually, for $2 billion, it makes sense for the Government to step in.

Less complicated than the sum of its works

Paddy Manning Centro was emblematic of all that went wrong.

Coal and nuclear just hot air, the immediate answer is gas

Paddy Manning People are looking for a cleaner energy source, one they can believe in, and enough to keep the lights on and power electric cars and desalination plants by 2050, when Australia's population will be...