Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET

**** As STT has pointed out, just once or twice, the policy debacle that is the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is completely unsustainable, on every level: economic, social and political. In the absence of the mandated subsidies (“the carrot”) directed to wind power outfits, and the mandated penalties (“the stick”) whacked on retailers under […]

Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”

**** In our earlier posts (here and here) we outlined the fact that – under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target – retailers are fined $65 per MWh for every MW they fall below the mandated 41,000 GWh annual target: what’s called the “shortfall charge” – follow the links here and here. With less than 23,000 […]

RET Review Panel says: Now THAT’S a Submission

In the week just gone, eco-fascist blogs like yes2ruining-us and ruin-economy have crowed about their team sending 23 million submissions to the RET Review Panel (okay, so we’ve exaggerated a bit, but so did they – and you get our point). Likewise, the Twitter-sphere has seen a flurry of self-congratulatory messages from the lunatic fringe […]