Low-income households are disproportionately affected by rising energy prices. A new report compares approaches to energy affordability in the EU and Australia.
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Australia has one of the highest rooftop solar installation rates in the world, which is great news for our efforts to reduce emissions. But can the grid keep up?
I sifted through 30 power retailers’ offers to save on my home bills. Then I checked - and discovered I’d been switched to a more expensive plan.
Xi Jinping has been talking tough on decarbonising China, but blinked after an energy crisis threatened to derail the world economy.
Time-poor households, like single parent families, are caught between rising prices and unhelpful tariffs.
A proposal to change the way electricity generators and retailers strike contracts for electricity would be bad for both consumers and climate action.
Electricity emissions can be cut to net-zero while keeping the lights on and prices down. But achieving that quickly means keeping gas around, for now.
Some Texans are receiving eye-popping electric bills after power providers passed on volatile costs to some of their customers – legally.
The danger of consumers being given false and misleading information by commercial price comparison websites requires regulation.
There are many possible outcomes from the closure of the smelter – just don’t expect lower electricity prices to be one of them.
The rules governing Australia’s electricity market are more than 20 years old and no longer serve consumers, or climate action. But big energy companies are using COVID-19 to delay reform.
Emissions from Australia’s electricity sector have dropped markedly during the pandemic.
But a recession could cloud the renewables outlook.
Australian winemakers have lost smoke-tainted crops and political leaders apparently cannot solve the Murray Darling crisis. Perhaps climate change is getting the better of us.
After a decade of rising electricity bills, prices are projected to fall thanks to new renewable generation.
If Australia is the biggest gas exporter in the world, why are we shipping it back in? Because the gas market is dysfunctional - and it means consumers are suffering.
An eight year study of half hourly prices finds that wind and solar generation have been pushing wholesale electricity prices down.
Energy companies offer thousands of different prices, making finding the best deal all but impossible.
The federal government has floated the idea of underwriting new coal-fired electricity generation in a bid to keep power prices low. But doing so would be a defiance of economic and environmental reality.
With electricity bills becoming more complicated, it’s increasingly difficult for customers to know if they are getting a good deal.
Large-scale solar and wind tend to push energy prices down, which sounds great as a consumer. But that makes keeping the grid in constant balance harder.
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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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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Research Program Leader, Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Curtin University