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"I’ve seen the energy future, and it’s in China.
On a recent delegation, I saw the futuristic factory of solar giant Longi in
Jiaxing, with its omnipresent robots, combining automation, big data, AI and 5G
to flexibly customise solar module components for diverse application scenarios
and customers, revolutionising advanced manufacturing at massive scale.
This is not an isolated case. China leads the world by a huge and growing
margin across almost all of the frontiers of our decarbonised future, from
sophisticated clean tech manufacturing to domestic renewable energy
installations to foreign direct investment into the energy transition.
This is good news for Australia – if we make the right strategic choices,
informed by a nuanced view of geopolitical dynamics and a sophisticated grasp
of where our national interests lie in the burgeoning net-zero world economy.
Australia and China have powerful resource and supply chain complementarities.
We have some of the world’s largest reserves of the minerals driving the energy
transition, we are world #1 in both iron ore and lithium, and we have
superabundant renewables potential.
Australia must look to transition out of its historical overdependence on
fossil fuel exports as the latter enter inevitable structural decline.
Together, our nations could be writing the next chapter of the global renewable
energy industry.
In collaboration, Australia and China could produce any product using green
energy – photovoltaics (PV) modules, polysilicon, lithium, iron and steel,
ammonia, battery energy storage systems (BESS) – a game changer for the whole
energy system, with implications for addressing the existential climate crisis
humanity faces.
As John Grimes, CEO of peak industry body the Smart Energy Council said on our
recent delegation, “It is the Australia-China relationship that gives the world
a fighting chance in addressing climate change”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics