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After two decades, the national electricity market is on its way out, and that's alright

  • Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
After two decades, the national electricity market is on its way out, and that's alrightNEOEN Energy

It has been more than 20 years in the making, but there is now a new order in Australia’s grandest (and most problematic) example of cooperative federalism: the National Electricity Market.

Not completely national (it excludes Western Australia and the Northern Territory), it links most towns south of Port Douglas and west of...

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