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At an address to the National Press Club, Kevin Rudd has put electricity prices at the top of a seven-part national competitiveness agenda.

Australia could phase out coal by 2040 if it doubled the take-up of solar energy and wind energy maintained its current growth pace, according to Professor Ken Baldwin, director of ANU’s Energy Change Institute.

Despite cuts in feed-in tariffs from several years ago, solar panels are now making even more economic sense for Australians. Benefits previously gained are now being equally matched because of rising electricity costs and the plummeting cost of solar panels.

The Labor Government has decided to drop the fixed price carbon tax, switching to an emissions trading scheme from 2014, a year earlier than planned.

The Gillard Government has rejected a change to the renewable energy target after calls from the country’s largest power companies to cut it back.

Australian’s emissions of carbon dioxide from power generation decreased 7 per cent in the financial year ending June 30 according to the latest report by Pitt & Sherry energy consultancy.

Tasmanian households who are feeding solar power back in to the grid will hold on to their feed in tariff rate after privatisation of the state’s power supply.

Latest figures from the Queensland Competition Authority have shown that the number of small businesses in Queensland having their electricity cut-off has surged 28 per cent in the last year.

The CSIRO are currently researching where the sun shines the longest in hopes to provide valuable information for solar developers.

Australian’s are being charged as much as $3 billion extra on their power bills due to overspending and lack of Federal control.

The Federal government’s released its final energy white paper today with a strong message to the state governments to use ‘courage’ to tackle the escalating electricity prices.

The Clean Energy Regulator has released its initial estimates for 2013 and 2014 renewable targets for small scale renewable energy systems.

A recent advertiser investigation has exposed that people are now paying more for electricity despite using less in the last two years.

Tasmanian Minister for Energy and Resources Bryan Green has assured solar power customers that any changes in the feed in tariffs will be fair when competition is introduced next year.