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How Australia can become a value-adding renewables superpower

Our resources industry is dig-and-ship. But global factors mean this country has a once-in-a-century opportunity to be a world-class electrostate that refines its critical minerals before export.

Alan FinkelFormer Chief Scientist

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Australia is well-positioned to establish itself as a renewable energy superpower in the global shift from petrostates to electrostates.

Electrostates will be those countries that supply energy transition materials such as critical minerals, or supply renewable energy. Australia can be both.

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Alan Finkel is Former Chief Scientist and led the National Electricity Market Review, the National Hydrogen Strategy, the Low Emissions Technology Roadmap and the Sydney Energy Forum.

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