Tasmania missing $2.8bn opportunity for big clean energy exports

Several factors combined to deliver seemingly astonishing reductions in Australian electricity sector emissions over the carbon tax years.

With those gains now being reversed, as shown in the figure below, we might ask what we learnt from our experiment with carbon pricing?

One insight that has received little comment to date, is the tantalising glimpse carbon pricing provided of the Tasmanian opportunity as a net electricity exporter in a carbon constrained world.

First some background on electricity sector emissions, reiterating some of the points made in several of my previous posts.

See the graph, read the rest of the article with full hyperlinks, RenewEconmy here