Policy & Planning

Video of the Day: Why the NEG will not deliver on emissions, reliability, or prices

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For every unsubstantiated political claim made about the National Energy Guarantee, there is an equal and opposite informed and balanced Twitter response.

Here is one, featuring RE regular and senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University, Simon Holmes à Court, explaining to ABC TV’s The Drum why the NEG isn’t worth the Excel spreadsheet its modelling is printed on.

You can also read Simon here, on what the NEG will do, to large-scale wind, solar and even battery storage. Spoiler: it’s not good.

Sophie Vorrath

Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. She is the co-host of the Solar Insiders Podcast. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.

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