安抚选民，扭曲市场：澳大利亚电力补贴的双重影响

IF 2.2 Q1 Social Sciences

Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI:10.1016/j.tej.2025.107476

Alberto Boretti

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澳大利亚的能源政策面临着脱碳目标、能源负担能力和化石燃料出口之间的矛盾。电力补贴暂时降低了CPI通胀，但扭曲了市场信号，降低了效率激励，并产生了机会成本。批评人士认为，补贴掩盖了电网的不稳定，推迟了可调度或可再生能源的投资。同时，化石燃料出口（如液化天然气）维持了生活水平，但与全球气候承诺相冲突。范围3的出口排放使国内减排相形见绌，削弱了气候领导地位的主张。这一分析凸显了政策的不一致性：短期退税和出口收入使对化石燃料的依赖永久化，使可再生能源转型复杂化。

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Soothing voters, skewing markets: The dual impact of Australia's electricity rebates

Australia’s energy policy faces contradictions between decarbonization goals, energy affordability, and fossil fuel exports. Electricity rebates temporarily lower CPI inflation but distort market signals, reduce efficiency incentives, and create opportunity costs. Critics argue rebates mask grid instability and delay investments in dispatchable or renewable energy. Simultaneously, fossil fuel exports (e.g., LNG) sustain living standards but clash with global climate commitments. Scope 3 emissions from exports dwarf domestic reductions, undermining climate leadership claims. This analysis highlights policy incoherence: short-term rebates and export revenues perpetuate fossil dependence, complicating renewable transitions.

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Electricity Journal Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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5.80

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31 days

期刊介绍： The Electricity Journal is the leading journal in electric power policy. The journal deals primarily with fuel diversity and the energy mix needed for optimal energy market performance, and therefore covers the full spectrum of energy, from coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil, to renewable energy sources including hydro, solar, geothermal and wind power. Recently, the journal has been publishing in emerging areas including energy storage, microgrid strategies, dynamic pricing, cyber security, climate change, cap and trade, distributed generation, net metering, transmission and generation market dynamics. The Electricity Journal aims to bring together the most thoughtful and influential thinkers globally from across industry, practitioners, government, policymakers and academia. The Editorial Advisory Board is comprised of electric industry thought leaders who have served as regulators, consultants, litigators, and market advocates. Their collective experience helps ensure that the most relevant and thought-provoking issues are presented to our readers, and helps navigate the emerging shape and design of the electricity/energy industry.