Featured in Potential for dark days ahead – 10-2018

A good chance of certainty within 18 months

There were some who believed that Australia’s proposed National Energy Guarantee (NEG) was better than nothing. But others, like renewable energy analyst and investor Simon Holmes à Court, were relentless in their castigation of the policy. Now with the NEG more or less dead and buried, he believes we’re closer to good policy than before.

By

Jonathan Gifford

09 Oct 2018

Simon Holmes à Court is Senior Advisor to the Energy Transition Hub at Melbourne University, and a board member at the Melbourne Energy Institute. As founding chair of Hepburn Wind, he played a key role in the development of Australia’s first community-owned wind farm. Holmes à Court is also the Founder of non-profit consultancy Embark Australia, which promotes community energy projects. | Image: Hepburn Wind

How would you describe what we saw in August and September – as the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) went through rounds of negotiations with the states, made some progress, and then brought down a Prime Minister?What we saw in the coalition party room was really a proxy war – really a fight for the heart and soul …

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