Carbon taxes, emissions trading and electricity prices: making sense of the scare campaigns
There’s a wealth of climate policies to choose from this election – but what will they do electricity prices?
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Renewable Energy Target cut would hit budget: modelling
Reducing the renewable energy target would cost the federal budget about $680 million more to meet Australia’s target of 5% emissions reduction by 2020, according to modelling released today by climate…
One day we won’t need a Renewable Energy Target, because we’ll have good climate policy
Renewable energy has had a rough time in Australia. Good climate policy could fix that.
RET changes may leave households to foot the bill
The federal government has now achieved passage of its Direct Action plan through the Senate. Some wheeling and dealing with the cross-benches was required of course – but while the government may oppose…
Victoria is the latest state to take renewable energy into its own hands
Victoria’s plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.
Renewable energy target can go all the way to 100% – if we let it
The political outlook for renewable energy is not great – and I’m not just talking about the view out of Joe Hockey’s car window. The Renewable Energy Target (RET), which aims to deliver 41 million megawatt-hours…
A radical idea to get a high‑renewable electric grid: Build way more solar and wind than needed
Solar and wind can’t deliver power on demand. But overbuilding solar and wind, and simply dumping unneeded energy, would go a long way to smoothing out those bumps, study finds.
Why states are walking back their own climate and energy laws, and what they might do instead
Many steps that are good for clean energy also dovetail with federal priorities, from affordable housing to data centers and rural development.
Americans support climate change policies, especially those that give them incentives and clean up the energy supply
A set of studies found people prefer incentives to disincentives, especially for individuals but also for businesses. They have views on clean energy and efficiency, too.
Killing renewables softly with endless reviews
You have to feel sorry for people working in renewable energy. Their industry has been reviewed to within an inch of its short life, and the goalposts have been shifted so many times that they don’t know…
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