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Electricity price increases: gold plating or carbon dating?

By Anthony Cox - posted Thursday, 16 August 2012


Even the government’s information is lacking in specific or correct information about the breakup between necessary infrastructure work on the existing fossils and ‘new’ infrastructure work to introduce the renewable into the system. However, Professor Davidson has produced a graph of the four main categories of costs to do with the electricity supply from the government’s proposed brochure to be supplied to all households with their next power bill.

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From this it can be seen that measures to do with either directly dealing with AGW, the “Carbon price”, or indirectly, “Retail, customer service and programs for energy efficiency and renewable” of the sort run by the CEFC and ARENA and solar feed in tariffs, as described above will cost $29 of every $100 spent on electricity.

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The “poles and wires” ‘infrastructure’ column, however, is where the main costs for electricity users will come from. Gillard is relying on her message being that ALL that $51 will be due to State ‘gold plating’ and nothing to do with the RET and other incentives to increase renewable power.

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