The BREAK—DOWN
Podcast
Issue

The Price is Wrong

Breaking down the energy system: how it works; why privatised energy means profits — not costs — are key; and why we can't leave a clean energy future to the markets.

With Brett Christophers

Renewables are often held up as the great success story of climate change, with policymakers and journalists routinely celebrating that clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels. By their logic, these plummeting costs mean that when it comes to the energy transition, the economics are essentially sorted, and we are now on an inevitable path to a world of clean energy. But is it really that straightforward?  

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