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South Australian Government
Tesla
Tesla battery + solar now “significantly cheaper” than grid power
Just 14 months ago, the writing was on the wall for grid-only electricity supply. Turns out the gap between grid only and PV+battery+grid is growing much more quickly than...
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Governments
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Renewables
NEG: A tangled web of electricity regulation
How will retailers meet their emission reduction obligations under the proposed NEG. It's a tangled web, and we suspect the ESB is starting to understand the monster it is...
Australian Federal Government
Governments
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Renewables
NEG is supposed to be better than nothing. But is it?
The NEG is yet another case of Australian exceptionalism in energy, typical of the toxic mix of muddled thinking and ideology that dominates regulatory oversight of this industry.
Australian Federal Government
Energy Markets
Governments
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Renewables
NEG will replace electricity markets with Soviet-style state planning
The NEG is the end of the electricity market as we know it. Effectively, it puts the regulators at the centre of the industry. It is the Australian energy...
Energy Markets
News & Commentary
Smart Energy
Energy consumers are paying for useless, profit-boosting infrastructure
It is difficult not to lapse into despair about Australia’s energy policy morass, which is dominated by a deeply entrenched culture of half-truths, vested interests, ideology and wishful thinking.
Australian Federal Government
Governments
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Utilities
Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
The IEA may be underestimating Australian household energy bills by 25% because of a lack of accurate data from the federal government.
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Renewables
Resource Efficiency
Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll
When the perfect is the enemy of the "roughly acceptable”: Economists back emissions policy that Alan Finkel has put on the table.
AGL
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EnergyAustralia
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NSW Government
Origin
Renewables
Utilities
Victorian Government
Market Insight residential electricity price series
New data shows that energy consumers are paying more than they think in their bills, and more than what the regulator admits.
Energy Markets
EnergyAustralia
Origin
Utilities
MarkIntell major retailer residential electricity price series
The latest guide to retail electricity prices across the major states in Australia.
Energy Markets
News & Commentary
Smart Energy
Competition isn’t working in Australia’s energy retail markets
Australia’s residential electricity prices are amongst the highest in the world so it’s not hard to see why customers have been up in arms about high prices.
