It sounds counterintuitive, but making it easier for customers to switch electricity retailers is part of a bigger problem.
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
A new rule from the Electricity Authority could push ‘gentailers’ to raise wholesale prices for all energy retailers, rather than offer rivals power at a lower cost.
Are supermarkets charging too much? This ‘three-limb test’ can help policymakers unpack the problem.
Power regulators want to ensure reliable electricity supply, but there’s more to customer service than that in the age of smart appliances, solar panels and EVs.
Capital gains taxes are often lauded as the fair way to ensure everyone pays their fair share. But when you map out different tax scenarios, taxing capital gains many not be as fair as it seems.
Repurposing fossil fuel infrastructures to supply clean fuels might make more immediate economic and environmental sense than mass electrification of transport and industry.
Before the Commerce Commission investigates the banking industry, we should remember there are good reasons for the way the sector is set up – and the Reserve Bank is at the heart of it. .
If governments auctioned off monopoly rights to produce and distribute clean fuels, Big Oil might be forced to buy into a greener transport future.
With the impact and cost of long COVID becoming ever more apparent, ongoing pandemic responses will need to be about protecting quality of life as much as saving lives.
Instead of wage subsidy and business loan schemes, allowing households, workers and employers to borrow against future income could be more efficient and equitable in the long run.
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