Australians are paying too much for power. Over the past five years, the average household power bill has risen 85 per cent. The prices you pay are also unfair: some people are paying too much, others too little. It’s to do with electricity networks catering for peak demand power and the way they charge customers...

The Victorian Coalition Government's systematic campaign against renewable energy has cost Victoria investment, employment and revenue according to this report.

This report argues that when it comes to reducing the Renewable Energy Target, the winners will be the big power companies while the losers would be households. Executive summary The Renewable Energy Target (RET) is a policy designed—with bipartisan backing—to reduce carbon pollution from the electricty sector and build Australia’s renewable energy industry. Both these...

An examination of the operation, costs and benefits of the RET, including the economic, environmental and social impacts, the extent to which the objectives of the scheme are being met and the interaction of the RET with other Commonwealth and state and territory policies. Introduction The Review of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme was...

Overview: This briefing paper provides an overview of wholesale and retail electricity prices in New South Wales and more broadly in the National Electricity Market. The specific causes of electricity price movements over recent years are discussed, as are consumption and supply forecasts. This is the first of a series of companion briefing papers related...