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Rooftop solar: paradise lost

Zoe Hilton , Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison · March 24, 2025 · AP80

Rooftop solar has been lauded by energy market bodies, policymakers, the media and environmental groups as a great way to lower bills, help the environment and help the grid.
Counting the Cost: Subsidies For Renewable Energy

Michael Wu · June 6, 2024 · AP70

This paper quantifies the federal government subsidies to the renewables industry over 10 years to financial year 2022-23. It finds that over that time, Australian taxpayers and electricity customers have paid more than $29 billion in subsidies to producers of renewable electricity through federal government schemes.
Impact of a Shadow Carbon Price on our Electricity Bills

Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison , Zoe Hilton · May 9, 2024 · AP68

This paper estimates that including VER as a class of market benefit could enable the approval of additional projects worth up to $508 billion, should proposals to eliminate all emissions be enacted today.
The six fundamental flaws underpinning the energy transition

Zoe Hilton , Aidan Morrison , Michael Wu · May 2, 2024 · AP67

This paper focuses on the question of how Australians have been led to believe two false claims: that renewables are the cheapest and that the cheapest version of a renewables-dominated system is to be built.

Frontier’s modelling exposes flaws of Labor’s renewables policy
Michael Wu , Zoe Hilton · December 19, 2024 · AFR

Amid the political fight over the Coalition’s nuclear plan, the flaws in the federal government’s own renewables-driven energy models – …

Counting the Cost: Subsidies For Renewable Energy

Michael Wu · July 1, 2024 · Research Collection

Counting the Cost: Subsidies For Renewable Energy By Michael Wu. For all references and graphs, please download the publication at the …

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