Capping the wholesale gas price is a poor attempt to decouple the domestic market from the volatile international market. The only sure way forward is a domestic reservation policy for the east coast.
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Australia’s governments have agreed to impose caps on the wholesale domestic price of coal and gas. How much it will help is debatable.
Green-lighting new gas projects is a code red for the Great Barrier Reef. But a new landmark federal court case may stop the Scarborough offshore gas project in its tracks.
Labor wants to run the Kurri Kurri gas power station on green hydrogen. But the figures don’t stack up.
Government-owned firms are often branded as uncompetitive, stuck in the past and unable to truly innovate. But they’re sometimes better suited than private firms to drive new, clean technologies.
The government has unveiled a $1.9 billion package of investments in new and emerging technologies, and reinforced its message that it is time to move on from assisting now commercially-viable renewables.
Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
Top contributors
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Ariel Liebman Director, Monash Energy Institute and Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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A/Prof and Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Sustainable Finance Hub, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
