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NSW Stands up for solar. Go Blues!<\/p><\/div>\n

Will clean energy be the blade that slices apart the ruling Coalition party? Will the fossil-fuel-stacked renewable energy target review panel fall on its dark arts? This week saw the potential for a factional clash of almighty proportions with the NSW government announcing their full support for the renewable energy target (RET) of 20 percent renewable energy by 2020.<\/p>\n

This is significant at a time when the feds’ renewable energy target review panel (stacked with cronies, cringers, climate change deniers and solar narks) is lumbering towards an expected conclusion to water down (or ditch) the target. Indeed the NSW-led revolt is more than just a disagreement within the Liberal party on a single (though major) renewables issue. It could completely change the political debate around clean energy in conservative ranks.<\/p>\n

You could hardly call Mike\u00a0Baird a tied-dyed, treehugger. He has a long history as a noted centrist in NSW and was accepted by both left and right factions after his malleable predecessor Barry O’Farrell resigned recently. Bazza exited stage right after “forgetting” he’d quaffed a gift of a bottle of wine from a lobbyist. His forgetfulness over the wine was as bad as his recent cave-in on the NSW feed-in tariff and sucking up to the big energy companies.<\/p>\n

Big Bad Barry also “forget” to put in a submission to the last RET review two years, despite billions of dollars worth of investment and hundreds of NSW jobs on the line. So no loss there for the renewable energy sector.<\/p>\n

Bairdy though, may well be different (early days I know). At least he’s impressed so far on the RET.<\/p>\n

He appears to be one who (shock, horror) listens to the people, rather than the factions. The key question now is: Could the emergence of the Baird moderates in NSW shift the debate within the Liberal party (federal and states) towards support for the immensely popular clean energy? Where will other Coalition states stand on this issue now that NSW (for once) has taken the lead?<\/p>\n

But perhaps one of the major implications of this clash may well be to mobilise federal moderate MPs against any move to gut the RET. With extremist PM Tony Abbott’s popularity currently lower than a fat snake’s belly, and the new Senate-elect making bellicose noises against Budget 2014, the Liberal moderates’ chance to flex their muscle has arrived.<\/p>\n

And the stage has been set by Bairdy’s bunch of NSW pro-clean energy Blues.<\/p>\n

Maybe its time to watch out for noted moderates (and clean energy supporters) such as Malcolm Turnbull to play more of a role on determining renewable energy policy in the federal Liberal party room? The popular and pro-renewables frontbencher and former leader of the party — who has been currently shunted out to the wastelands of the Ministry of Communications — remains an important rallying point for pro-clean energy moderates.<\/p>\n

A great deal will depend on the strategy of Big Mal, when to make the break, when to attack etc. Mal’s also from NSW and comes from the same general moderate persuasion as the NSW premier, which begs the question: Was he forewarned about the move to support the RET?<\/p>\n

The federal moderates have been in disarray in recent years as the party charges further into the waiting arms of the fossil fuel lobby by almost completely abandoning abandoning clean energy. Even Johnny Howard supported a form of carbon tax for god’s sake!<\/p>\n

But the extremists have had their way for far too long. The stoush between NSW and the feds over the renewable energy target review may well be the catalyst that draws out moderate MPs against the knuckle dragging, anti-renewable extremists. The chasm that may now form will be matched in width only by the smiles of the collective renewable energy industry, who have been less than well supported in conservative ranks in recent years. The Baird revolution just may change the course of political debate over renewable energy in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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