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Bruce Mountain
Governments
ESB price claims for target already met are not credible
How can a policy that is designed to do something that will happen anyway causes prices to be any lower than they would be anyway?
Bruce Mountain
Jul 26, 2018
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If you need a PhD to read your power bill, buying wisely is all but impossible
Energy bills are becoming to complex to understand, but we can learn much by analysing them closely. Here’s how..
Bruce Mountain
Jun 25, 2018
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Markets
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.
Bruce Mountain
May 4, 2018
25
Other Good Stuff
Is the NEG just an EIS in disguise, but with added costs?
The NEG seeks to obscure the most valuable information obtained from a market – the price of emissions. Needless complexity and cost arises.
Bruce Mountain
Apr 19, 2018
3
Three-wheeling towards a poor energy policy outcome
Defending NEG on basis that something must be better than nothing is like trying to build a car and settling on just three wheels and no steering.
Bruce Mountain
Apr 6, 2018
12
Commentary
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 we imagined.
Bruce Mountain
Feb 20, 2018
96
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 creating.
Bruce Mountain
Feb 16, 2018
5
Commentary
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.
Bruce Mountain
Nov 24, 2017
16
Commentary
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 equivalent of “Gosplan”, the State Planning Committee.
Bruce Mountain
Oct 25, 2017
14
Markets
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.
Bruce Mountain
Oct 24, 2017
7
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