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Killing Queensland coal?

By Geoff Carmody - posted Monday, 13 November 2017

Reliability will be threatened. If that threat is avoided, affordability will be pushed much further out of reach.

Queensland's competitive position within Australia, and overseas, will be further eroded.

Palaszczuk's RET ambitions may be achieved mainly by shutting down, or even reversing, Queensland's growth.

Is that really what we want?

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My apologies. In my previous opinion piece (Are renewables and batteries part of the power generation & storage solution?) on 9 November 2017, I promised a piece on 'poles and wires': the electricity transmission and distribution network. I hope to write that piece next time.

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About the Author

Geoff Carmody was a director of Geoff Carmody & Associates, a former co-founder of Access Economics, and before that was a senior officer in the Commonwealth Treasury. He died on October 27, 2024. He favoured a national consumption-based climate policy, preferably using a carbon tax to put a price on carbon. He has prepared papers entitled Effective climate change policy: the seven Cs. Paper #1: Some design principles for evaluating greenhouse gas abatement policies. Paper #2: Implementing design principles for effective climate change policy. Paper #3: ETS or carbon tax?