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Energy gaming by generators cost Australian consumers $3.4 billion between 2013 and 2017

By Mike Carabott | July 2, 2018

Electricity generators deliberately manipulated the National Energy market by bidding, withdrawing bids to create artificial scarcity, and rebidding to force prices upwards in a process …

Rising coal prices and Hazelwood closure to blame for sustained high wholesale electricity prices in New South Wales

By Mike Carabott | December 7, 2017

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has found that rising coal prices, the closure of Hazelwood and limited supply is causing high sustained wholesale electricity prices …

Closing Victoria’s Hazelwood power station is no threat to electricity supply… but certainly a threat to stable wholesale electricity prices

By James Iliffe | September 27, 2016

The threat of Hazelwood being shut down as early as April next year may not be a threat to Australia’s electricity supply…. but it’s certainly …

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