{"id":23451,"date":"2018-08-13T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=23451"},"modified":"2018-08-13T08:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:51:56","slug":"neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704\/","title":{"rendered":"NEG &#8211; COAG Energy Council Meeting Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23452\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-energy-guarantee-coag.jpg\" alt=\"National Energy Guarantee\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-energy-guarantee-coag.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-energy-guarantee-coag-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-energy-guarantee-coag-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/sign-ordinance-law-bridge-legal-14089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PublicDomainPictures<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the COAG Energy Council Meeting on Friday, the Federal Government was told to get its act together on the National Energy Guarantee if it is to have any hope of getting it over the line.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For all the bluster in the lead-up to the meeting, the COAG communique said relatively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coagenergycouncil.gov.au\/sites\/prod.energycouncil\/files\/publications\/documents\/18th%20COAG%20Energy%20Council%20Communique_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">little about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/national-energy-guarantee-mb0701\/\">As expected<\/a>, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT declined to endorse the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), even in principle, but they have agreed to keep working towards it.<\/p>\n<p>All three have maintained their positions and will not be supporting the NEG unless a range of conditions are met, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NEG must be approved by the Coalition Party Room first.<\/li>\n<li>The draft Federal legislation must be released.<\/li>\n<li>Emissions reduction targets can never be allowed to reduce.<\/li>\n<li>Future targets must be set by regulation every three years.<\/li>\n<li>A transparent registry be implemented.<\/li>\n<li>States\/ACT must be able to have more ambitious renewable electricity and emissions targets, and these targets additional to the national emissions target for the electricity sector.<\/li>\n<li>Conflicts with existing renewable energy schemes must be resolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding the requirement of the Coalition&#8217;s Party Room blessing, Queensland Acting Energy Minister Cameron Dick <a href=\"http:\/\/statements.qld.gov.au\/Statement\/2018\/8\/10\/statement-from-queensland-acting-energy-minister-cameron-dick\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span id=\"releaseContent\">The Coalition party room is the biggest risk to energy and price stability &#8211; and has been for 10 years \u2013 so we need that party room certainty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the meeting, ACT Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Shane Rattenbury also again pushed for the release modeling on the NEG&#8217;s claimed cost savings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Climate experts are not sure how these apparent cost savings have been reached, and we\u00a0need to make sure the cost promises are right,\u201c <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmd.act.gov.au\/open_government\/inform\/act_government_media_releases\/rattenbury\/2018\/neg-needs-more-work,-says-act\">he stated<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Minister for Energy Lily D\u2019Ambrosio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premier.vic.gov.au\/victoria-holds-firm-on-renewables\/\">said<\/a> her state would not sign up to any scheme that threatens Victoria\u2019s renewable energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Clean Energy Council is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au\/news\/2018\/August\/genuine-negotiation-end-energy-wars-neg-coag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling for<\/a> other issues to be addressed, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Owners of solar power systems being able to decide where their emission reductions go.<\/li>\n<li>Energy storage projects not being subject to the reliability obligation.<\/li>\n<li>Western Australia and the Northern Territory are currently excluded from the emissions reduction target &#8211; 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Federal Minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshfrydenberg.com.au\/guest\/mediaReleasesDetails.aspx?id=621\">said<\/a> the meeting was an important step in &#8220;advancing the Turnbull Government\u2019s plan for a more affordable and reliable energy system&#8221; and ESB Chair Dr Kerry Schott said the result was a \u201cgreat step forward\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the COAG Energy Council Meeting on Friday, the Federal Government was told to get its act together on the National Energy Guarantee if it is to have any hope of getting it over the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEG - COAG Energy Council Meeting Outcome - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government has been told to get its act together on the National Energy Guarantee if it is to have any hope of getting it over the line.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEG - COAG Energy Council Meeting Outcome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government has been told to get its act together on the National Energy Guarantee if it is to have any hope of getting it over the line.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-12T21:51:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/national-energy-guarantee-coag.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"501\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/neg-coag-meeting-outcome-mb0704\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"NEG &#8211; 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