2020

After two decades, the national electricity market is on its way out, and that’s alright

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 10 Dec 2020

Pumped hydro isn’t our energy future, it’s our past

Bruce Mountain and Steven Percy, The Conversation, 29 Oct 2020

A new look inside the workings of Australia’s National Electricity Market

Bruce Mountain and Steven Percy, Renew Economy, 20 Oct 2020

You can’t trust the price-comparison market, as iSelect’s $8.5 million fine shows

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 13 Oct 2020

Narrabri gas reality check: it may take big investors to put it out of its misery

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Bruce Mountain, The Age, 30 September 2020

AEMO’s Integrated System Plan: Does it leave Snowy 2.0 high and dry?

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Bruce Mountain and Steven Percy, Renew Economy, Aug 2020

AEMO’s Integrated System Plan: Does it leave Snowy 2.0 high and dry? 

Bruce Mountain, Director, VEPC, and Steven Percy, Senior Research Fellow, VEPC, 10 August 2020

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NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move

Bruce Mountain and Mark Lintermans, Associate Professor, University of Canberra, The Conversation, 21 May 2020

COVID-19 and Social Distancing: Does It Show Up in the Demand for Electricity?

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Steven Percy and Bruce Mountain, International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Energy Forum, COVID-19 Special Issue 2020

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Snowy 2.0 is a wolf in sheep’s clothing – it will push carbon emissions up, not down

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, Mar 2020

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Energy oligopoly using market power to profit under cover of rooftop solar

Bruce Mountain and Steven Percy, Renew Economy, Feb 2020

2019

Snowy 2.0 will not produce nearly as much electricity as claimed. We must hit the pause button.

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, Oct 2019

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Ownership, regulation, and financial disparity: The case of electricity distribution in Australia

Bruce Mountain, ScienceDirect, Oct 2019

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Victorians who switched energy retailers only save $45 a year – leaving hundreds on the table

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 2 Sept 2019

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Australia’s energy woes will not be solved by reinforcing a monopoly

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 23 Aug 2019

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New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 24 July 2019

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Regulator’s ruling on default market offers might not lower prices

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 30 April 2019

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Energy price gouging exposed by new regulations

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 14 Jan 2019

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New regulations expose energy price gouging through ‘free’ comparison sites

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 9 Jan 2019

2018

The verdict is in: renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 6 Dec 2018

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Consumers are angry about energy policy that doesn’t add up

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 13 Aug 2018

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Tesla big battery: It earned a lot more money in second quarter

Bruce Mountain and Steven Parker, Renew Economy, 3 Aug 2018

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The NEG is a flagship policy. So why hasn’t the modelling been made public?

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Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 31 July 2018

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NEG emissions plan is a political fix for a non-problem

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Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Australian Financial Review, 30 July 2018

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ESB price claims for target already met are not credible

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Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 26 July 2018

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If you need a PhD to read your power bill, buying wisely is all but impossible

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 25 June 2018

Electricity market reform in Australia

By Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Published in Forum (Issue 114, June 2018).

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Market Insight: Residential electricity price series

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 4 May 2018

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Is the NEG just an EIS in disguise, but with added costs?

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 19 April 2018

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Three-wheeling towards a poor energy policy outcome

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 6 April 2018

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NEG: A tangled web of electricity regulation

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 16 Feb 2018

2017

Energy prices are high because consumers are paying for useless, profit-boosting infrastructure

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 24 Oct 2017

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Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 4 Oct 2017

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MarkIntell major retailer residential electricity price series

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 6 July 2017

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Competition isn’t working in Australia’s energy retail markets

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 3 April 2017

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Comparing Australia’s electricity charges to other countries shows why competition isn’t working

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 31 March 2017

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MarkIntell’s latest state by state retail electricity market indices

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 15 March 2017

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Wholesale price rises whodunit: Gas or renewables?

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 8 March 2017

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Time to put energy retailers and their offers under the microscope

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 23 Feb 2017

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Australian retail electricity price guide – state by state

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 21 Feb 2017

NEG is supposed to be better than nothing. But is it?

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 24 Nov 2017

NEG will replace electricity markets with Soviet-style state planning

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 25 Oct 2017

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Can two clean energy targets break the deadlock of energy and climate policy?

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 22 Sept 2017

Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 25 Aug 2017

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Emissions intensity scheme – another act in tragic comedy of errors

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 27 Feb 2017

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Want electricity reform? Start by giving power back to the states

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 14 Feb 2017

2016

Coal closures: Will utility margins rise where the sun don’t shine?

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 19 Dec 2016

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Solar and battery storage beating best retail offers in SA by a quarter

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Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 9 Nov 2016

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Tesla’s price shock: Solar + battery as cheap as grid power

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 4 Nov 2016

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AGL’s new retail offer signals big jump in wholesale electricity prices

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Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 19 Oct 2016

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Making sense of the AEMO report on SA blackout

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 6 Oct 2016

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How the South Australia blackout occurred: what the data tells us

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 29 Sept 2016

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Does rapid renewables expansion necessarily mean higher electricity prices?

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 26 Sept 2016

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Are retailers failing to properly value rooftop solar generation?

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 16 Sept 2016

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Australia’s big energy retailers are fattening their consumer margins

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 19 July 2016

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Grid parity for battery storage? It’s complicated

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 19 April 2016

2015

Networks continue spending spree, and the customer pays

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 4 Nov 2015

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Battery storage and the challenge for networks and regulators

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 29 Oct 2015

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Network polemics: Why ENA is wrong on battery storage costs

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 27 Sept 2015

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Networks pricing everyone out of grid: It’s time for competition

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 18 Sept 2015

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Solar wars: How networks discriminate against solar households

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 25 June 2015

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Grattan’s solar report: The numbers still don’t add up

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Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 12 June 2015

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Grattan got numbers wrong: Solar policies delivered net benefit of $1.2bn

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, Renew Economy, 9 June 2015