The balance between reliability and emissions
Australia's new energy policy is fuel neutral with all sources of electricity generation being able, in theory, to compete on an equal basis
Launceston, Australia
IT WOULD be easy to dismiss the Australian government's discarding of a renewable energy target as a Donald Trump-like attempt to cling on to polluting fossil fuels in the face of the rise of cleaner alternatives.
Certainly, the decision by the centre-right Liberal Party federal government to end subsidies for renewable energy projects and reject advice to set a clean energy target has the appearance of being an abandonment of efforts to mitigate climate change.
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