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The unacceptable cost of renewables

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

Parts of Europe may be tearing themselves apart politically over the vast costs of adopting renewable energy, but Australian voters are being asked to believe that doing the same thing down under won’t cost very much at all.

Modelling by Frontier Economics for the Energy Security Board has found that an influx of renewable energy will result in wholesale power prices falling over the next few years.

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