National Electricity Market

The new code ensures more gas is available at reasonable prices for consumers and an even playing field for producers and users: Treasurer.

Clean Energy Investor Group calls for a more “credible path” for the NEM’s ability to keep global temperature increases within 1.5°C.

Snowy Hydro head Paul Broad has ‘offered his resignation’ according to a statement from the government-owned enterprise

Nationalising electricity is not a silver bullet. To operate most effectively, the sector needs to balance the roles of private competition and government regulation.

Here is a break down of a few of the terms and ideas underpinning this unprecedented electricity crisis event to help you make sense of it.

Angus Taylor says a new gas-fired power station will drive down electricity prices — but the company building it says it’s a green hydrogen power station.

Politically, reductions in the costs of wind and solar generation has meant decarbonisation is increasingly seen as a way to cut electricity prices. But in NSW and Victoria a small number of privately-owned coal generators dominate production.

There’s been no shortage of attention on small business energy bills over the last 18 months, amid myriad complaints from local entrepreneurs about rising bill prices in recent years. Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has previously described business energy bills as “unreasonable” and has this year made several promises to deliver relief.