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Congratulations to Future Grid

Congratulations to Chris Law, David Ryan, Quenton Pongracz and the team at Future Grid for winning the New Energy Award 2017. It’s great to see Australian innvoations. We need to support these businesses as they are key to Australia’s economic future – they are the future drivers of growth in jobs and revenue for Australia. […]
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  • On October 16, 2017
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Energy Lab – Creating a new renewable energy market

We are looking forward to Energy Lab’s next event with the ISF’s Dr Geoff James. The hydrogen economy has such huge potential and Australia has so many attributes in its favour to make us a global leader. This is what innovation and jobs is about. https://energylab.org.au/events     Freshwater Group is a renewable energy recruitment […]
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  • On October 15, 2017
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Is it Enough?

I recently listened to a McKinsey podcast, Pathways and Obstacles to a Low Carbon Economy, with Lord Adair Turner and Arnout de Pee, and was reminded of the UK’s Energy Transitions Commission that is Chaired by Lord Turner. Initially they may have drawn criticism due to some of their funding sources, but the Energy Transitions […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On April 26, 2017
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Ambition or hopeless optimism?

Six million extra jobs. For a future focussed, energy sector recruitment business, that paints a bright future. But then “an energy transition of exceptional scope, depth and speed”, “an ambitious set of policy measures” and “aggressive efficiency measures” really gets our interest piqued. The IEA and IRENA have recently published a report Perspectives for the […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On March 22, 2017
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Energy Shock

It is shocking to think that the obvious solutions to our energy policy issues do not seem obvious to our political leaders. The Australian Industry Group have recently released a report, Energy Shock: No Gas, No Power, No Future?  It makes a great read for anyone who has any influence over energy policy. Innes Willox has […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On March 3, 2017
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The Economics of Solar

Is the answer to solar profitability mainly better capital and operational efficiency? I was surprised reading McKinsey’s, How solar energy can (finally) create value, that their view is the next critical step for the solar industry is not so much technical as economic. I agree with their points on the economics and there is some […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On January 9, 2017
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The Race is On

With 6,000 MW of renewable energy capacity to build by 2020, where are all those people going to be recruited from? Today’s announcement from ARENA on the winners of funding for solar projects feels a bit like a starting gun. Certainly the last six months have seen an uplift in renewable energy recruitment but much […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On September 8, 2016
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A peach or a lemon?

Is your next hire a peach or a lemon? Is your next job a peach or a lemon? How will you know before it is too late? A few days ago, on The Economist Radio, Andrew Palmer and James Astill were discussing George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On August 10, 2016
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Jobs Automation and the Circular Economy

Nearly half of all jobs in Australia will be lost within 20 years, because of automation and computerisation. Incredible, isn’t it? But that’s PWC’s forecast in its recent report, The STEM Imperative. If this isn’t alarming enough, research commissioned by The Foundation for Young Australians found that 60% of students in Australia are studying for jobs in which the vast majority will be lost or radically changed by automation.
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On June 22, 2016
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The Data or The Hunch

When recruiting staff should you base your decision on your gut instinct (your “hunch”) or should you look at the numbers and make a data-based decision? This important question was recently discussed in a podcast by Matthew Sweet, Ian Leslie and Kenneth Cukier, following an article, The Data or The Hunch, in Intelligent Life magazine. […]
  • Posted by Freshwater Group
  • On August 12, 2015
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