Victorian Fabians Annual Dinner: 'Power Switch' - a just energy transition with Bruce Mountain

We need to decarbonise our economy and we need to do it fast. This means switching power in our homes, workplaces, and personal transport to renewable energy. What are challenges to adapting to imperatives of climate change and what are the hard realities? Are there ways to transition fast without jeopardising fairness and equity?
Professor Bruce Mountain is a well-known Australian energy economist and Director of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre. Challenges that arise from the transition to renewable electricity have drawn his focus for most of the last two decades. He is interested in economics, policy and institutions in the tradition of political economy.