What if renewables don’t deliver the cheapest power, after all?

Australia’s energy debate has, at long last, moved beyond the question of whether atmospheric pollution is affecting our weather, and onto a discussion about how best to reduce emissions. While the science may be settled, the costings aren’t. The energy transition to low emissions power sources is the biggest thing humanity is currently attempting. Big things take big budgets, which must be spent for maximum impact. But what if we’re basing our spending, in fact our whole transition, on lousy numbers? Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor of major project management at the University of Oxford, recently published a book relevant to this challenge, How Big Things Get Done...