Media
A selection of key media appearances over recent years.
2025
JULY In-depth radio interview with Dan Cass on ABC RN ‘Rear View’ about the electricity crisis.
APRIL Opinion piece by Dan Cass proposing that Australia uses electrification as the organising concept for the COP31 climate conference, ‘Australia needs a smart COP playbook and it’s staring us right in the face’, The Energy
2024
OCTOBER - Long interview with ABC Radio National, on ‘How do we fast-track the transition to rooftop solar?’
SEPTEMBER - Quoted in Sydney Morning Herald piece explaining that wealthy households are less likely than poor houses to have solar system.
SEPTEMBER - Quoted in Nine News TV story covering launch of Renew Australia for All coalition calling for clean and affordable energy.
MARCH - Quoted by Jacob Greber exclusive in the Australian Financial Review, ‘Could ‘HECS-for-solar’ slash power bills and save climate goal?’
FEBRUARY - TV interview by Joe O’Brien on ABC News channel about social licence issues in renewable energy zones.
FEBRUARY - Quoted by Jacob Greber in the Australian Financial Review, ‘‘Breakthrough moment’: Littleproud backs rooftop solar’
2023
DECEMBER - Quoted by Peter Hannam in Sydney Morning Herald feature ‘Hecs for the home: households warm to the idea of a loan scheme to leap from gas to electricity’
DECEMBER - Quoted in The Age explaining bill benefits of electrification for gas consumers in Victoria.
JUNE - Quoted in News.com story on benefits of household electrification and gas abolishment.
MARCH - Quoted in ABC story profiling Rewiring Australia’s budget proposal to the Federal Government for $2.5 billion to finance the electrification of half a million homes. TV interview on ABC News channel.
2022
JUNE - TV interview on ABC News channel explaining how improvements in planning of renewable energy zones could accelerate build out and lower prices for consumers.
JUNE - Analysis for The Conversation co-authored by Dr Rebecca Pearse, Professor Linda Connor and Riikka Heikkinen, ‘We want to be part of that movement’: residents embrace renewable energy but worry how their towns will change’.
PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
2021
MAY - Cited in Australian Financial Review describing Energy Minister’s Angus Taylor’s preferred policy as ‘”a stealth subsidy to coal” that would push up prices, reduce competition and undermine clean energy’.
MAY - Analysis for The Conversation co-authored by Dr Joel Gilmore and Dr Tim Nelson ’Paying Australia’s coal-fired power stations to stay open longer is bad for consumers and the planet’