{"id":3947,"date":"2014-08-22T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:08:41","slug":"solar-council-arent-lying-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-council-arent-lying-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Council\u00a0Aren’t Lying. Your Government Is."},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has painted a big bullseye on solar power.<\/p>\n

They’ve got it in their sights. They want the renewable energy target (RET)\u00a0repealed and they’ll do just about anything to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Well, anything but come right out and say, “We’re against renewable energy because because we want to protect the fat wallets of our buddies in Big Energy”.<\/p>\n

No, they can’t bring themselves to be that honest.<\/p>\n

Instead, they’ve engaged in an almost comical game. A game where they\u00a0attempt to justify their solar enmity with numbers.<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that numbers don’t lie.<\/p>\n

The government commissioned ACIL Allen to provide economic modelling on the future of the RET.<\/p>\n

ACIL Allen ran their modelling based on assumptions that favored non-renewable energy (for example, that gas prices will FALL between now\u00a0and 2016 and then stay at those prices until 2040!).<\/p>\n

But even with the assumptions biased against solar, the numbers refused to lie for the administration. The modellers had to admit that…<\/p>\n