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Setting the standards: Why consumer energy resources deserve a better policy approach than “Ready, Fire, Aim”
Shortfalls in governance of consumer energy resources will be obvious – and potentially costly and politically damaging – if we don’t get it right.Proposed gas network revenue reforms leave consumers to pay for investors’ bad bets
In its draft determination on changes to the rules governing gas networks revenue recovery, the AEMC has misjudged who needs protecting.
Outback Australia has desperate need for rooftop PV and batteries to cut crippling dependence on imported diesel
Australia has installed half a million home batteries in the last year. But how many have been installed in remote, end-of-grid and off-grid communities? Next to none.
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Setting the standards: Why consumer energy resources deserve a better policy approach than “Ready, Fire, Aim”
Shortfalls in governance of consumer energy resources will be obvious – and potentially costly and politically damaging – if we don’t get it right.
Proposed gas network revenue reforms leave consumers to pay for investors’ bad bets
In its draft determination on changes to the rules governing gas networks revenue recovery, the AEMC has misjudged who needs protecting.Outback Australia has desperate need for rooftop PV and batteries to cut crippling dependence on imported diesel
Australia has installed half a million home batteries in the last year. But how many have been installed in remote, end-of-grid and off-grid communities? Next to none.
Second wave of big batteries will eat the dinner of fossil fuels, forcing some coal generators to close
The current second wave of big battery projects will kill the economics of most coal generators, but the grid still needs a lot more wind and solar.
Australia’s climate hypocrisy on show as world braces for global warming “overshoot”
Days apart, one Australian minister called for reduced dependence on fossil fuels, while another literally turned the tap on new fossil gas supply, as a UN report warns we’ll overshoot 1.5 degrees.
Note to One Nation: Regions aren’t rejecting renewables, they just want them done properly
Anger about renewables will not be fixed by scrapping, burning or burying. If political leaders listen carefully, they may discover what regional Australians really want.
Australia wrote the world’s best rooftop PV rules. We must do the same for plug-in solar – and fast
Australia has the highest rooftop solar penetration on earth because we wrote sensible rules early and let people get on with it. We know how to do this for plug-in solar. We are just not doing it.
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