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Research and Insights 2017

Commentary

 

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

Bruce Mountain, VEPC Director, The Conversation, 24 Oct

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

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 4 Oct

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MarkIntell major retailer residential electricity price series

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 6 July

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

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 3 April

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

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 31 March

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MarkIntell’s latest state by state retail electricity market indices

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 15 March

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Wholesale price rises whodunit: Gas or renewables?

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 8 March

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Time to put energy retailers and their offers under the microscope

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 23 Feb

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Australian retail electricity price guide – state by state

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 21 Feb

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

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 24 Nov

 

NEG will replace electricity markets with Soviet-style state planning

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 25 Oct

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

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 22 Sept

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

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 25 Aug

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Emissions intensity scheme – another act in tragic comedy of errors

Bruce Mountain, Renew Economy, 27 Feb

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

Bruce Mountain, The Conversation, 14 Feb

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