Over the past few years we have seen governments introduce numerous complex 'green' schemes into the electricity mix. In New South Wales I can count five separate schemes. The Commonwealth Government has the Large Scale Renewable Energy Target Scheme (LRET) and the Small Scale Energy Renewable Scheme (SRES). In New South Wales we have the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (GGAS), the NSW Energy Saving Scheme (Ess) and hidden in NSW network service charges is the Climate Change Fund. In addition to these schemes we have generous solar rebates across most states also adding to electricity costs. No doubt there are many other schemes across the country that I'm unaware of.
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