Electricity retailers: do we really need them?
Electricity retailers are not really retailers at all -- they don’t deliver any product, apart from a bill. Now they're accused of standing in the way of the energy revolution. Why do we need them?
View ArticleFive things Gillard could do to fix the electricity market
Julia Gillard has finally fingered the real problem with electricity prices -- inefficient markets in need of reform. Tristan Edis of Climate Spectator lists five steps to fix the situation.
View ArticleHow heavy industry actually profits from the RET
The government's sweetener offsets to ease the pain the renewable energy target for energy-intensive industries may actually overshoot the predicted rise in electricity costs.
View ArticleForget business tax cuts, focus on electricity reform
While attempts to wangle a cut to business tax rates fail, there's more to gain from repairing our energy regulation framework instead, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
View ArticleWhy Abbott has got it all wrong on green energy
Tony Abbott is hinting he'll wind back a program to support renewable energy because that energy is forcing up power prices. Read this, Tony; you've got your sums wrong.
View ArticleSo much for our democratic Parliament
Crikey readers talk energy costs and anti-Chinese prejudice.
View ArticleShrinking electricity networks still worth a bomb
The days of electricity companies driving up costs -- and passing those costs on to their customers -- are fading.
View ArticleEssential: just go, Bronwyn, just go
Many voters, including Liberal voters, want Bronwyn Bishop gone from politics altogether. And few people are buying the government's efforts to link a carbon price and higher electricity prices,...
View ArticleEssential: strong backing for Labor’s renewables goal
Despite believing it will push up energy prices, voters strongly back Labor's goal of 50% renewable energy, potentially neutering a looming Coalition scare campaign.
View ArticleTips and rumours
Offal in the two-minute noodles? ... Chinese homophobic junk mail doing the rounds ... how to emoji, by Fairfax ... The post Tips and rumours appeared first on Crikey.
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