{"id":2805,"date":"2013-09-02T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:42:17","slug":"taking-politics-solar-power-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/taking-politics-solar-power-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the politics out of solar power policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2816\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pollies-solar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2816\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2816\" alt=\"Renewable energy is too important to be trusted to pollies.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pollies-solar.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renewable energy is too important to be trusted to pollies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the end of a depressing week for renewables, talk over the SQHQ water cooler has been centred along the lines of: is it time to keep pollies out of solar power policy?<\/p>\n<p>First we had the shrill and frankly rather desperate tactic of Kevin \u201cThe Queensland Kid\u201d Rudd bucketing on the carbon tax introduced by his predecessor Julia \u201cWho?\u201d Gillard. The Kid seemed to aiming to appease the fossil fuel lobby (or was it Murdoch?) when he said his previous government had \u201cgot it wrong\u201d on the carbon tax.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone the Coalition \u2014 in the form of the weighty \u201cSloppy\u201d Joe Hockey \u2014 threw the switch completely to vaudeville. Perhaps trying to deflect attention from the awkward questions journos keep asking about costings, Sloppy announced that a number of renewable energy programs would not just be slashed but hung, drawn and quartered.<\/p>\n<p>So much for solar power policy! Is this war on renewables?<\/p>\n<p>Chief among these cuts is the gutting of funding for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Renewable Energy Agency<\/a> (ARENA) and the abolition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergyfinancecorp.com.au\/?gclid=CKWhw7XCprkCFQs4pgodKD0A-g\" target=\"_blank\">Clean Energy Finance Corporation<\/a>. Like most of the Coalition\u2019s policies the details were sketchy and the logic even fuzzier with more details to be given \u201cat a later date\u201d. But you start to get the picture don\u2019t you readers?<\/p>\n<p>But back to the SQHQ water cooler discussion. Maybe its time for a change in thinking on solar power policy? Instead of pollies slashing funding for forward thinking renewable energy agencies like ARENA, how about we start slashing the pollies from where they do most damage: solar power policy? As recent Australian election cycles have shown, partisan politics are one of the main obstructions to a coherent solar power policy. Interestingly a study released last week based on recent economic modelling from the conservative energy agency the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)<\/a> claimed 100 percent renewable energy is possible by 2030 at little extra cost.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key planks of the economic modelling is that market forces should be made to decide the price of renewables which would include a mix of solar, wind, geo thermal, hydro electric and biomass. However the unstated point would be that the public sector (run by the pollies of course) would only play a limited role. That is one of managing and supporting the renewable mix until it becomes self sustaining.<\/p>\n<p>Certainty would be provided by the public sector up to a point to encourage long term investment in the future of renewable energy programs such as solar power. Policy would be to manage rather than destroy the renewable energy sector through uncertainty. A coherent and rewarding solar power policy in other words.<\/p>\n<p>Market forces? Private sector? Reduced government? Even the Murdoch papers may back this. But would it work readers? Or would the pollies (state and federal) compromise this solar power policy by cutting renewable programs at the culmination of every election cycle? Your thoughts are of course welcome, both here or over at our discussion hub (and online water cooler), our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a depressing week for renewables, talk over the SQHQ water cooler has been centred along the lines of: is it time to keep pollies out of solar power policy? 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