Biggest ever renewables tender announced
NSW is set to get the lion’s share of Australia’s biggest single tender for renewable projects.
22 April, 2024
Posts Tagged: NEM
International Energy Agency gives Australia low marks for energy policy
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its first detailed analysis of Australian energy market in five years. It is not complimentary. Australia’s energy policy, it says, is uncoordinated and falling behind the rest of the world on many measures. The IEA is not given to overstatement. It is an OECD agency established in 1974 […]
15 February, 2018
National Electricity Market ‘broken’ – Tasmania wants out
The National Electricity Market (NEM) is under fire from many quarters. A new parliamentary report has criticised many aspects of its operation, and now Tasmania’s Liberal Government has said that if returned to office after the 3 March election it will withdraw the state entirely from the NEM by 20121. Tasmania, which has abundant hydroelectric […]
5 February, 2018
Emissions rising, Government ‘censors’ the data
The Climate Council of Australia has called on the Government to release Australia’s latest quarterly carbon emissions data, saying that its failure to do so amounts to ‘climate censorship’. Meanwhile, independent modelling using the same methodology as that used by the Department of Environment and Energy shows that Australia’s emissions are rising. “Australia’s greenhouse gas […]
10 December, 2017
WA urged to go it alone on renewables
Influential energy and climate economist Professor Ross Garnaut says Western Australia should adopt a state based emissions intensity scheme. He is recommending and Emissions Intensity Scheme (EIS) for the state. Professor Garnaut said WA could lead the world as a clean energy superpower. He believes its vast resources of renewable energy, and its isolation from […]
4 November, 2017
Electricity update
Flat electricity demand puts price rises squarely on network charges.
31 August, 2017
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