{"id":30194,"date":"2016-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/politics-gets-in-the-way-of-fixing-the-power-crises\/"},"modified":"2016-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"politics-gets-in-the-way-of-fixing-the-power-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/politics-gets-in-the-way-of-fixing-the-power-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics gets in the way of fixing the power crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The federal government is wrong to say an emissions intensity scheme would increase power prices, says a top economist.<\/h3>\n<p>Danny Price tells Leon Byner the scheme would \u201cdefinitely not\u201d increase prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis policy\u2019s been purpose designed to keep electricity prices low,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way the scheme operates reduces prices to a lower level than they would otherwise be.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/297453061&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Danny Price explained how the scheme would work to lower prices\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way this scheme works is that an emissions standard is set and if you operate above that standard\u2026 then you must buy a credit from a clean generator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe high emission generator effectively lowers the cost of the low emission generator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there are more generators operating in the market, the market becomes more competitive and that competition drives prices down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that the government at least gives it some consideration because it is fundamentally a different scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leon reported local businesses are struggling with the price of power\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is not a business that\u2019s a big consumer of energy that hasn\u2019t had a massive increase in their power bill\u2026 which is absolutely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/reporter-who-gave-ben-cousins-a-lift-is-extremely-concerned\"><strong>SHOCK COMMENT FROM REPORTER WHO GAVE BEN COUSINS A LIFT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/kane-cornes-tips-a-christmas-gift-for-sports-lovers\"><strong>KANE CORNES TIPS XMAS GIFT FOR SPORTS LOVERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is wrong to say an emissions intensity scheme would increase power prices, says a top economist. Danny Price tells Leon Byner the scheme would \u201cdefinitely not\u201d increase prices. \u201cThis policy\u2019s been purpose designed to keep electricity prices low,\u201d Danny says. \u201cThe way the scheme operates reduces prices to a lower level than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politics gets in the way of fixing the power crisis - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/politics-gets-in-the-way-of-fixing-the-power-crises\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politics gets in the way of fixing the power crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The federal government is wrong to say an emissions intensity scheme would increase power prices, says a top economist. 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