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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
Bruce Mountain

Oct 4, 2017

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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.
Bruce Mountain

Aug 25, 2017

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Utilities

MarkIntell major retailer residential electricity price series
The latest guide to retail electricity prices across the major states in Australia.
Bruce Mountain

Jul 6, 2017

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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.
Bruce Mountain

Apr 3, 2017

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Markets

MarkIntell’s latest state by state retail electricity market indices
The latest state by state guide to retail electricity markets and their components.
Bruce Mountain

Mar 15, 2017

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