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Fear not climate change

Fear climate policies

18 January 2023

10:00 PM

18 January 2023

10:00 PM

One of the most logic-defying – OK, gobsmacking – pronouncements made by governments last year was the decision to exclude fossil fuels from a capacity mechanism attached to the National Electricity Market.

The idea of a capacity mechanism is quite straightforward. It deals with those situations when there is inadequate supply to meet demand and stand-by sources can be called on to make good the shortfall.

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