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Five things we learned from… Clean Energy Week
Mainstream parties defend the RET, but what exactly are they defending? The Coalition is blinded by its hatred of green technologies; why The Greens get it and mainstream parties don’t; why renewables could avert a gas-fired price surge; and why it’s better to be behind the meter than in front of it.5 -
Australia’s energy future by 2050? The scary vision of the Right
Australia’s clean energy industry has been reassured this week that all sides of politics support the Renewable Energy Target. What they should worry about most is what happens beyond 2020, and if the Conservatives are swept to power. -
Government pledges support for RET – but can it be built?
Combet says government supports fixed target for renewables, but says dropping the carbon price will make the renewable energy target difficult to meet. The defence of the RET has emerged as the main challenge at the clean energy industry’s peak event, but can it be met? -
CEFC: Why it should seek to distort and disrupt
Most submissions on the CEFC call for a softly, softly approach to financing. But a leading Australian innovator says Australia’s push into clean energy risks being too timid and incremental, and we are now living in a world of exponential changes. PacHydro, meanwhile, suggests the energy market and the Energy White Paper wake up to climate change policies.
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