Clean Energy Target: There's nothing in the ACCC report that suggests it should be axed

If the Government is looking for an excuse to ditch the Clean Energy Target, it will struggle to find one in the preliminary report of the competition watchdog's electricity pricing inquiry.

ACCC report disproves the widespread misconception
that renewable energy is responsible for Australia's
higher energy prices.

And if you hear anyone saying the Australian Competition and Consumer Competition (ACCC) report provides backing for such a move, don't buy it — it's spin.

The ACCC has, in fact, given the lie to the widespread misconception that incentives for renewable energy are the main reason Australians are paying far more for electricity than they used to.

Retail prices have risen by almost two-thirds over the course of a decade, but the report confirms that subsidies for renewables have made a very minor contribution to that huge rise.

Read the ABC News story - “Clean Energy Target: There's nothing in the ACCC report that suggests it should be axed.”

Finkel energy review is a political fix, but it's a crucial one

Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel.

The Chief Scientist says otherwise, but this is a political fix – and an understandable one.

When Alan Finkel released a preliminary report into energy security last year, there was no mention of the latest policy now thrust into the centre of the decade-old political climate wars – the creatively named clean energy target.

Read Adam Morton’s analysis in today’s Melbourne Age - “Finkel energy review is a political fix, but it's a crucial one.”