8 April 2021
The ACOSS article seeks to correct what it said were “mis-conceptions and false accusations” in the public debate about the AEMC’s proposed rule to allow networks to charge distributed generators to use the grid.
ACOSS’s article references my previous contributions – here and here – as the source of such mis-conceptions and false accusations. These are serious claims to make. ACOSS is a respectable organisation and I am a university professor and Director of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre.
Enough background, on with the debate. Here is my open letter to ACOSS in response.
“Dear ACOSS, thank you for your article. You make many points in it. Let me please respond to the main ones in the order you present them.
Regulator Expects Another Huge Year For Solar In Australia
Regulator Expects Another Huge Year For Solar In Australia
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The Clean Energy Regulator’s latest Quarterly Carbon Market Report reaffirms what a successful year it was for renewable energy in Australia in 2020 – and more of the same is expected this year.
The December Quarter 2020 Quarterly Carbon Market Report released yesterday notes 7 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity was delivered across Australia last year, exceeding the Regulator’s original estimate of 6.3GW by quite a margin.
Small-scale Solar Power Shines Again – And Will Continue To
3 GW of the capacity installed last year came via the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme, so to those Australians who installed solar systems in 2020 – take a bow.
April 6, 2021
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Hidden Cost of Solar: Sunset Delivers Power Price Surge As Governments Dictate Household Power Use
Hereafter, the lights will go on during the day and off after sunset.
In the ‘even the Soviets couldn’t have dreamt this up’ category sits a plan to force households to use power when they simply do not need it.
Backed by the Federal government’s Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme – which delivers taxpayer funded credits to the owners of rooftop solar panels worth $40 per megawatt-hour – and ludicrous State backed, over-the-market, Feed In Tariffs (when the schemes started, in the order of $500-600 per megawatt-hour), domestic solar is not only wrecking grids, it’s wrecking household budgets for those without them.