Daily update: RET Review panel calls for large-scale, solar schemes to close

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Daily update: RET Review panel calls for large-scale, solar schemes to close

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RET Review calls for closure of RET to new entrants, closure of small-scale scheme. AEMC compares solar to air-con in power pricing recommendations; RET changes to kill industry for decades; Yingli says Australia stalls on solar as rest of the world booms; Hawaii utilities capitulate on solar in renewables plan; RET a market distorting subsidy?; Wind energy surges in China as demand for coal fades; Making PV accessible to low-income families; Australian transport falling behind on energy efficiency; and could an independent Scotland deliver a low carbon future?
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RET Review panel appointed by Tony Abbott calls for closure of the renewable energy target to new entrants as one of two options it is recommending to the government. It also wants small-scale scheme closed or limited to installations of less than 10kW.
The rule maker for Australia’s energy markets is targeting households with air-con and solar as it tries to share around the cost of networks, and to recognise role of battery storage. But will these rules reward incumbent utilities, or recognise the future? And can they be done fast enough?
BNEF says presumed changes to RET will cause string of bankruptcies, and effectively kill renewable energy industry in Australia for a decade.
Yingli says policy uncertainty holding back Australian solar market, as demand in rest of the world – Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas – surges.
Months after being ordered to lift their game on renewables, Hawaii’s utilities reveal plans to triple amount of rooftop solar by 2030.
The RET has been criticised as a subsidy to renewable energy investors that distorts the electricity market. How true are these claims?
China is expected to exceed its target of 100GW wind capacity by 2015 by 30% by the end of 2015.
Giving low-income families access to solar PV systems can help lower their utility bills, and bring about an element of environmental justice.
Australians are using more energy to travel each kilometre than people in developed nations such as the US, and emerging economies such as China and India.
As Scottish voters decide whether their country should remain part of the UK, what difference will the vote make to the energy future of these isles?

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