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The $1.6 billion committed in the federal budget may deliver energy efficiency upgrades to a few hundred thousand households. But what Australia needs is a National Energy Savings Scheme (NESS) that mobilises industry to drive millions of household and business upgrades. This much-needed transformative measure will address the biggest barrier…
Crippling bill pain will thump households and businesses relying on old gas water and space heating as the gas shortfall predicted by the Australian Energy Market Operator hits Victoria next winter, unless the Victorian Government dramatically accelerates financial incentives for energy customers to switch from gas to electric appliances before…
Poor public policy practice has left leading energy efficient lighting and environmental certificate creation businesses in the dark. The federal government has not provided a transition period as part of their announcement yesterday that commercial and public lighting upgrades would no longer be eligible for Australian Carbon Credit Units under…
A proposed national energy transformation plan (NETP) published today will deliver on climate by increasing existing targets and expanding existing market-based mechanisms. It’s not hard, nothing new, can largely be lifted from NSW’s shelf and the key deliverables are obvious. Key deliverables: have a plan; increase the emissions reduction target…
A 180-degree pivot from the Business Council of Australia (BCA) with its report released on 9 October supporting a net zero emissions target along with detailed commitments from its members as to how they will contribute, plus supportive coverage from previously lukewarm mainstream media, is the best climate action news…
Slam dunk from NSW with 50% by 2030 emissions reduction target announcement that got full cabinet support due to modelling proving jobs and investment. “The Federal Government has 51 days remaining until COP26 in Glasgow where Australia must face its reckoning with international trading partners and shoot a decent hoop…
In a national first, the NSW government today launched its peak demand reduction scheme (PDRS) with a target of 10% by 2030, supporting that state’s pathway to net zero by 2050 and strengthening energy reliability and security. “The PDRS is a vital new lever that could be ramped up further…
Victoria’s interim emissions reduction targets set a realistic trajectory to net zero by 2050 but are not enough to ward off a 1.5 Degree Celsius temperature increase. The government needs to have clear levers to pull in between five-yearly reviews to instigate a major ramp up in ambition. This will…
The New South Wales government announcement yesterday of its energy savings scheme (ESS) target increase from 8.5 per cent to 13 percent of electricity consumption by 2030 is well timed and well considered. It is a massive post pandemic punch: socking the energy trilemma where it is hurting most: affordability…
The Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program will offset 77 per cent of the electricity generation that will cease when Yallourn coal-fired power station is closed by Energy Australia in 2028, as announced today. The lights will even more assuredly stay on - particularly during peak summer demand events - if…
