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Why east coast energy woes won’t hurt green industry plans

Many projects in the new industries can be located where they are welcomed, and away from the current grid.

Rod SimsFormer ACCC chair

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The Australian Financial Review’s editorial in the July 3 print edition stated that rising energy costs in Australia would undermine the federal government’s Future Made in Australia strategy. This is not so.

Australia’s current energy market problems essentially come from seeking to move to zero emissions energy without putting a price on the negative effects of carbon emissions.

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Rod Sims is a professor of public policy at the ANU. From 2011 to 2022 he was chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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