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87% of electricity price rises are nothing to do with renewables. But we still get the blame. Funny that.<\/p><\/div>\n

Energy poverty in Australia is defined as when more than 10 percent of your household disposable income is spent on energy. It’s a newish problem in our country but one, due to rapidly escalating electricity prices, that we will unfortunately hear a great deal more about in coming years. With the skyrocketing electricity prices that have kicked in around the country, the question (from the point of view of the big energy companies and their politician friends) is not so much “Have we got a massive problem with energy poverty in this country?” as “Who the f!@# can we blame?”<\/p>\n

Cue solar energy and other renewable forms of power (of course). Read the Murdoch press (and listen to their accomplices in the federal and state capitals) and you get the same rant. The reason for our burgeoning electricity prices, say the solar narks, seat polishers etc is entirely due to programs such as the Renewable Energy Target (RET) and the carbon tax.<\/p>\n

The assumption is that, without these subsidies to renewable energy, electricity prices would fall to their previous level.<\/p>\n

Nothing could be further from the truth as was highlighted in the ABC’s excellent Background Briefing program (“The Price of Power”)<\/a>. Indeed as Richard Denniss, executive director of The Australia Institute<\/a> states clearly, the bulk of the electricity price rise is the fault of the energy companies.<\/p>\n

“For all of the attention that carbon price has got, from the increasing attention the renewable energy target’s got, the main reason that electricity has been getting dearer is the overinvestment in poles and wires, and the fundamental inefficiency in the way that the national electricity market’s working,” says Denniss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This investment — justified by the power companies due to an incorrect belief that demand will increase — has of course been subsidised by the consumer in the form of higher prices. Let’s look at the figures.<\/p>\n

According to the Australian Energy Markets Commission<\/a>, the programs associated with the renewable energy target amount to 4 percent of the electricity price rise. Around a dollar a week. Added to that are costs associated with the previous carbon tax which amount to a grand total of around 13 percent of the estimated 100 percent rise in electricity prices. The remaining 87 percent can be put down to an overinvestment of $45 billion in network infrastructure.<\/p>\n

So having established who’s really to blame for the price hikes, it’s equally important to address the problem this greed is causing. For the problem of energy poverty Australia is becoming very real indeed. According to a 2012 University of Sydney study<\/a>, energy poverty is striking Australians, particularly those on lower incomes, very hard.<\/p>\n

“Energy poverty needs to be explicitly recognised as a distinct and growing social problem for Australia’s 3.5 million households, who fall in the two lowest-income quintiles as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics,” said study author Dr Lynne Chester.<\/p>\n

“Steep increases in electricity prices will cause hardship for low-income households because they have far less capacity to reduce their energy demand.” Dr Chester added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are we on the verge of very real energy poverty Australia due to energy company’s greed? If so what are the options for going off the grid completely? A key point raised on the Background Briefing program was the possibility of more and more Australians leaving the grid due to<\/p>\n

(a)<\/strong> increasing price rises triggered (as we have seen) by the energy companies,<\/p>\n

(b)<\/strong> the falling costs of solar systems and<\/p>\n

(c)<\/strong> expected improvements<\/a> in the capacity and price of solar battery storage.<\/p>\n

Australians are an innovative lot, particularly in more remote communities. How long before complete energy independence becomes the answer to energy companies’ greed and resulting energy poverty Australia? This has become a vital issue for Australians as the government sets up an “independent” review into the RET. We’d like your opinion on the questions raised either here or at our Facebook<\/a>, Google Plu<\/a>s or Twitter<\/a> Pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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