8 April 2021
The ACOSS article seeks to correct what it said were “mis-conceptions and false accusations” in the public debate about the AEMC’s proposed rule to allow networks to charge distributed generators to use the grid.
ACOSS’s article references my previous contributions – here and here – as the source of such mis-conceptions and false accusations. These are serious claims to make. ACOSS is a respectable organisation and I am a university professor and Director of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre.
Enough background, on with the debate. Here is my open letter to ACOSS in response.
“Dear ACOSS, thank you for your article. You make many points in it. Let me please respond to the main ones in the order you present them.
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