Taylor has failed on energy prices, let’s hope he does better on emissions

When Angus Taylor was first appointed energy minister after the dethroning of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull last August, he really only had one policy remit – to cut prices.

Angus Taylor failed in his efforts to reduce energy prices and so
it is unlikely he'll do any better in trying to contain emissions.

So much so that the man who gave him the post, the newly appointed PM Scott Morrison, dubbed him the minister for lowering electricity prices. Despite Taylor declaring a few days later in his first ministerial speech that wholesale prices had turned the corner, it hasn’t worked out that way.

Taylor has now been granted a double-barrel portfolio of responsibilities, newly re-minted as the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, bringing together the combined tasks of a clean energy transition with emissions reductions that were separated after the removal of Turnbull. 

Let’s hope he has better luck with the new portfolio than he did with the first.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Giles Parkinson - “Taylor has failed on energy prices, let’s hope he does better on emissions.”