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Ray Wills

Perth
As seen in: LinkedIn, MSN Australia, Yahoo News Australia, The Conversation, Flipboard, The Jakarta Post, Scroll.in, The Diplomat Magazine, Bizcommunity, Cosmos Magazine and
Covers:  almost anything tech, aus politics, transport, smart cities, tech adoption, robotics, 3Dprint, solar, wind, renewables, batteries, EVs, energy efficiency, social media, climate change, sustainability
Doesn't Cover: I’m interested in everything, and nothing else.
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Professor Ray Wills’ wide–ranging career as researcher, academic, planner, consultant, adviser, manager, executive, business owner, author, commentator and futurist. Prof Wills is an authoritative and respected observer on sustainability, technology and futurism across all sectors including the built environment, cleantech, energy infrastructure, industrials, manufacturing, resources, transport, and water.  Prof Wills' research interests include adoption rates of technology and disruptive techn…

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Ray Wills - Renew Economy : Renew Economy

Ray Wills - Renew Economy : Renew Economy

My articles, interviews and commentary on Renew Economy - Australia biofuels carbon emissions carbon price CE…

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Peter Newman and Ray Wills

Peter Newman and Ray Wills

Joint articles by Peter Newman and Ray Wills

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Ray Wills and Peter Newman - Renew Economy

Ray Wills and Peter Newman - Renew Economy

Articles by Ray Wills and Peter Newman

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Prof Ray Wills - YouTube

Prof Ray Wills - YouTube

Collected interviews and presentations on climate, technology and the future

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The Conversation

The Conversation

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Professor Ray Wills, Sustainable Energy Association of Australia, addresses forum on climate chan...

Professor Ray Wills, Sustainable Energy Association of Australia, addresses forum on climate chan...

Professor Ray Wills from the Sustainable Energy Association speaks at Scott Ludlam's 'Turning Up The Heat' fo…

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Delaying clean energy is what really makes power bills soar

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By Ray Wills
| RenewEconomy Verified
Some commentators blame wind, solar and batteries for rising power bills. But the evidence from Australian market bodies and modellers is clear: done well and done on time, a clean energy transition is the cheapest way to keep energy affordable and cut emissions. “Green energy delays” are being blamed by some for making Australians poorer, with trolls misreading headlines saying the transition is the culprit.
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We’re targeting 35 pct electrification in less than 10 years – but 35 pct of what?

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By Ray Wills
| RenewEconomy Verified
When Australia’s Chris Bowen and Turkey’s Murat Kurum unveiled their “35 by 35” flagship target at Bonn this month – raising electricity’s share of global Final Energy from around 20 per cent today to 35 per cent by 2035 – it was the most consequential framing decision in years of climate talks After years of climate negotiations dominated by vague fossil fuel phase-down language, here was something concrete: a number, a date, a technology pathway.
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Chart of the Day: Farewell King Coal, long live King Solar (and wind and batteries)

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By Ray Wills
| RenewEconomy Verified
The future is determined by what happens today, followed by what happens tomorrow. What happened yesterday is no longer relevant. When “King Coal or King Solar?” ran in The Conversation back in 2012, we argued that the real contest was in new capacity, not in the legacy fleet.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

As a science 'journalist' editing and writing for the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I wrote my later undergrad papers on a manual typewriter, my Honours thesis on an electric golfball typewriter, and I wrote my PhD on my Mac

How is social media changing news?

It's here, it's now - like everything else in the 21st C is boutique and distributed #banking #retail #solar #beer #smartphone #3dprinting
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