It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. Go back a few months and the intention of the Coalition through its proposed underwriting scheme of new generation investment was crystal clear: Bring in “base-load”and “24/7” power.

Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton explains the reason behind the new level of rigor which is being applied to the council’s Approved Solar Retailer program.

Victoria’s Essential Services Commission (ESC) has set new rates for solar feed-in tariffs from July 2019. The single rate will be boosted, shoulder/off-peak time-varying rates will be increased and the peak rate slashed.

New South Wales Labor says it will aim for at least a 50 per cent share of renewables in the state’s electricity consumption by 2030, and will source the equivalent of all the state government electricity needs from renewables by 2025.