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The Renewable Energy Target is Under Attack!<\/p><\/div>\n

About two weeks ago we delivered a broadside<\/a> against Origin Energy’s and the NSW State government’s apparent war against solar power. As you may recall, SQHQ considers the attempt by traditional energy utilities to influence the 2014 review of the renewable energy target (RET), to be part of a wider campaign against solar power. This driven in most part by misinformation. The latest manifestation is an\u00a0Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) recommendation that solar households be charged more to use energy utilities’ infrastructure.<\/p>\n

At the risk of being accused by solar narks of being a bunch of swivel-eyed, cherry-picking, cardigan-wearing, latte-sipping, conspiracy theorists, this latest use of the misinformation appears at the heart of an anti-renewable campaign. As a certain nasty little gentleman from history once said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”.<\/p>\n

The nasty little lie is of course that renewable energy such as solar is the main cause of households’ skyrocketing electricity bills. A little research shows this to be untrue. By far the main cause of rising energy prices is the huge increase in cost of utilities’ own infrastructure such as power poles, network costs etc.<\/p>\n

To quote IPART<\/a>, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal \u2014 the source (mis)quoted by Origin \u2014 network costs are to blame for the horror electricity bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cRising 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention the pressure air conditioners place on the grid.<\/p>\n

Never let the truth get in the way of a good old fashioned anti-renewable campaign appears to be the line followed by the fossil fuel polluters and their unquestioning cheerleaders in some sections of the mainstream press. Their compliant parliamentary chair polishers throughout our wide brown land (and getting browner if energy utilities had their way) appear to agree with the energy companies.\u00a0As discussed previously, Origin, along with their buddy Big, Bad Bazza O’Farrell, propagates the anti-alternative energy lie by writing (in large red letters on each electricity bill) that renewables are to blame for the increases.<\/p>\n

Are we right readers? Or are we the victims of a watermelon conspiracy designed to revert our country back into the stone age; the line driven ad nauseum by the Murdoch press? Are fossil-fuel polluters and other vested interests just being naturally loose with the truth to protect their rapidly diminishing market share? Did we really expect them to go down without a dirty fight on the renewable energy target and energy policy in general?<\/p>\n

More importantly will Aussies looking to invest in the future ignore the current brouhaha and continue to vote with their roofs? This last point is of course the nightmare of the traditional solar narks and utilities.<\/p>\n

As always your comments, suggestions, denunciations, witty ripostes and more are welcomed either here or over at our Facebook Page<\/a>. You can also sign a petition against the solar tax at Solar Citizens website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About two weeks ago we delivered a broadside against Origin Energy’s and the NSW State government’s apparent war against solar power. As you may recall, SQHQ considers the attempt by traditional energy utilities to influence the 2014 review of the renewable energy target (RET), to be part of a wider campaign against solar power. 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