$30 tonne carbon price pollutor subsidies for emission intensive, trade exposed industries (EITEIs) costs double to get return by energy efficiency

According to the Climate Institute, the scale of investment needed in energy efficiency was minor when compared to the proposed subsidies to pllutors moted under the national carbon policy.

20 years Kurnell desal electricity contract: Sydney Water to contract Babcock wind plus CPI; 180,000 RECs a year, to fund construction

Coal with CO2 dumps dominates the landscape of new entrants after 2030, in MMA models for Federal Treasury

    Proof Edition: MMA models showed how proposed CO2 dumps would extend the life of coal mines

Federal Treasury models carbon price where coal-to-gas fuel-switch occurs; much higher than anticipated due to the higher gas prices

Proof Edition: Federal Treasury models found the permit price at which fuel switching from coal to gas occurs is much higher than anticipated due to the higher gas prices.

South Australian government cites cost of new meters as reason for not adopting the gross feed-in tariff model

In South Australia. government adopted a net metering arrangement in preference to gross generation based on the assertion that net metering delivers superior energy efficiency outcomes, said Andrea Gaffney National Government Relations Manager, Clean Energy Council.

For the short-term - after carbon price - economically viable for brown coal plants to generate, as the will se the price

Proof Edition: The permit price at which fuel switching from coal to gas occurs is much higher than anticipated due to the higher gas prices.

Great debate: EnergyAustralia says gross national feed-in tariff: money for jam; but feed-in tariffs; 'solve market failure', argue solar generators

Andrea Gaffney, National Government Relations Manager, Clean Energy Council, said the Council arged a gross national feed-in tariff was a complement to emissions trading schemes and renewable energy targets.

Overwhelming public opnion: Australia needs gross industrial feed-in tariff: intervention for grid parity to compete with old technologies

The data showed 98 of 123 submissons to Sebate Committee national gross feed-in tariff: only two supported net generation.

Tangled web of green policy in South Australia; how net feed in tariff helped Government look green, at cost of efficiency

Some South Australians wanted to go green even if it it costs them extra money said Tim OLoughlin Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability and Workforce Management, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia. Government wanted to help then do it, he said.

Why South Australia chose net metering: it trialled net-metering only, and a change to gross, would cost too much

Heather Smith, Principal Adviser, Sustainability and Climate Change Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet, South Australia said by the time we started ‘we had almost 3,000 systems in South Australia wired up. We made the decision administratively to run this through the electricity system. Those meters were already out there, already being read, already going through the billing systems of the distributor and the retailer, and tariffs were being attached and what have you’.

South Australia solar-surprise; daytime exports to grid was 50 per cent of small - customer-use from the 3000 solar systems

It is fair to say that when we first looked at the data we were pretty surprised that the export levels were up at 50 per cent. We could not refute the data because it was coming straight from ETSA, our distributor, said Heather Smith, Principal Adviser, Sustainability and Climate Change Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet.

South Australia wants all other states to go with a net solar feed-in tariff