Energy policy guessing game will kill investment, executives warn
The energy policy vacuum makes it harder to justify large investments in new generation needed to stabilise the electricity system as more coal plant retires and sets the country back behind "square one", energy and industry executives warned Energy minister Angus Taylor.
In the past few days the government has abandoned emissions targets for electricity and separated energy and climate policy ministries after its attempt to unite them ran foul of backbench hostility to renewable energy and the Paris climate agreement.
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