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...

Introduction: This discussion paper responds to the growing demand for environmental expenditure information identified within environmental domains. The ABS has previously produced Environmental Protection Expenditure statistics, Environment Protection, Mining and Manufacturing Industries, Australia, 2000-01 (cat. no. 4603.0) and Environment Expenditure, Local Government, Australia, 2002-03 (cat. no. 4611.0). However, a scarcity of available information and data...

Overview: Energy in New Zealand 2014 provides annual information on and analysis of New Zealand’s energy sector including statistics on supply and demand by fuel types, energy balance tables, pricing information and international comparisons. It is an annual publication, reporting data on a calendar year basis. Latest quarterly information is available under Energy Data. The...

The Abbott government and a group of investors are pinning their environmental hopes on a clean coal technology that is still in the very early stages of development. Paddy Manning tracks the quest for the clean coal holy grail and investigates the men getting unspeakably rich from the search.

This paper is designed to demystify the Renewable Energy Target, look at what it has achieved and what it is capable of achieving, and to consider the challenges it faces in the near future. Overview Australians love renewable energy. A recent survey by The Australia Institute found 86 per cent of respondents want to see...