Energy prices Archives - Renew Economy

Commentary

Is Labor to blame for high energy prices? Or was this the perfect trap set by the fossil fuel industry?
Peter Dutton blames Labor for high energy prices. The reality is prices would have gone up with either party in power because of the trap set by coal and gas industry.
Tristan Edis

May 1, 2025

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CleanTech Bites

Taylor has failed on energy prices, let’s hope he does better on emissions
Angus Taylor is now responsible for emissions reduction. Let’s hope he does better than he did on electricity prices, but he needs to first admit that emissions are going up, now down.
Giles Parkinson

May 27, 2019

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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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Other Good Stuff

WA bathes in sunshine, but poorest households lack solar panels
Solar panels are still a rarity in WA’s lower-income areas.
Rebecca Cassells Alan Duncan and Yashar Tarverdi

Aug 28, 2017

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Commentary

National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it’s time to move on
The NEM has failed. Its very narrow economic objective was to provide low prices, reliable and safe energy, and to act in the long term interests of consumers. It hasn’t.
Alan Pears

Jul 17, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Clean energy spending hits 43% share of total supply investment
Global spending on energy fall by 12% overall in 2016 but clean energy spending is on the up.
Ian Clover

Jul 12, 2017

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Commentary

Energy Efficiency market report: Predictably unpredictable
Things are becoming predictable in the Victorian Energy Efficiency Certificate market, even if that is supply side’s ability to surprise. Meanwhile, in NSW, a stunning development.
Marco Stella

Jul 5, 2017

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Renewables

Report: Near-total renewable energy systems cheaper than gas in 2030
Climate Policy Initiative stresses flexibility and shows how energy storage and limited gas generation can support a power system dominated by renewables at a lower cost than conventional generation.
Christian Roselund

May 3, 2017

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Markets

India plans to slash renewable energy certificate prices
Indian regulators want to lower the floor price of RECs – a move that could increase renewables demand and benefit sellers who have huge inventories of unsold credits.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Mar 8, 2017

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When will Australians finally stop wasting our energy?
We take it for granted that we’ll have affordable power and fuel for as long as we want them.
Alan Pears

Jan 31, 2014

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