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The sorry state of origin’s stance on renewables…<\/p><\/div>\n

Australian energy utility Origin Energy<\/a> is under the SQHQ microscope this week readers. More specifically their claim that the carbon tax and subsidies for green schemes are the chief cause of the rise in the average electricity bill. Your correspondent received his bill from Origin on Thursday. While never a pleasant experience this was made worse by a clear message situated prominently on the lower right side of the document in big red letters.<\/p>\n

NSW Govt estimates that the Federal carbon tax and green energy schemes add about $332 a year to a typical 6.5MWh household bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds nasty readers but is it true?<\/p>\n

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The source of the claim was given as IPART<\/a> \u2014 the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal. Out of interest \u2014 and on behalf on SQHQ \u2014 your scribbler popped over to the IPART website to investigate this claim. Under the FAQ “Why have electricity prices increased so much in recent years” was this answer:<\/p>\n

A typical regulated customer’s electricity bill has increased in NSW over the past 6 years by around $1060 per annum.<\/p>\n

Rising network costs have been the biggest contributor to the increase in electricity bills. These are the costs of paying the network businesses to use the transmission and distribution networks to transport electricity from the power stations to their customers properties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Subsidies for green schemes and the carbon tax are mentioned but as secondary causes. It appears that Origin is being (shall we be diplomatic here readers?) “economical with the truth”. Very economical.<\/p>\n

SQHQ’s very own Finn Peacock was of a similar mind when your correspondent asked him about the real cause of the rise in the average electricity bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vast majority of power price rises are due to increased poles and wires to cope with peak demand from air conditioners,\u201d said Finn making an excellent point at the SQHQ water cooler. Then he really hit his stride when he added:<\/p>\n

Every time someone installs a $1500 air conditioner, everyone else subsidises this through an extra $7,000 in network upgrades. A quick Google search will find the government report that actually calculated this!<\/p>\n

Irony is that I bet most of the narks who slag off solar subsidies, also have an air conditioner<\/a> or two in their homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now (surprise, surprise!) Origin has a bit of form opposing renewable energy. Not only is the company pushing the propaganda about green energy being solely responsible for the dramatic rise in the average electricity bill, but they have announced quite openly their desire to prevent the growth of renewables.<\/p>\n

This has been covered very well in a recent Greenpeace\/100% Renewable report Strangling Renewables: Origin Energy\u2019s Campaign against Renewable Energy<\/em><\/a>. The study concludes that the company is actively undermining the growth of the renewable energy sector in a number of ways. This includes using misinformation (like the above) to influence the review due early next year of the Renewable Energy Target (currently set at 20 percent of energy from renewables by 2020).<\/p>\n

This appears to be just the opening salvo in a long war conducted by the large energy utilities against renewable energy. The evidence would suggest Origin and other large energy utilities are conducting a drawn out propaganda war against renewable energy.<\/p>\n

However we’d like to throw the question to you: was the propaganda on blaming green energy and the carbon tax for the rise in the average electricity bill just the beginning? What can we expect in the next phase leading up to the review of the renewable energy target? Please have your say here and over at our Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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