Modern Australian

The renewable energy train is unstoppable. The NEG needs to get on board

  • Written by Ken Baldwin, Director, Energy Change Institute, Australian National University

On the face of it, the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), adopted as Coalition policy at a party room meeting yesterday, appears to promise the certainty that industry, consumers and experts have desperately sought for the past decade. But beware: there is a renewable energy train coming down the track that is unstoppable.

The NEG cannot stop the...