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Green electricity users face 'double bills'
Greenpower users will be double billed if changes to the new greenhouse gas reporting system are not made, says University of Adelaide climate change Professor Barry Brook.
This could cause the GreenPower national accreditation scheme to "implode" when an emissions trading scheme is introduced in 2010.
Professor Brook said the almost 750,000 households and businesses using GreenPower nationally would be penalised once an emissions trading scheme was introduced as they would be paying extra to buy power from renewable sources.
June 29, 2008
by Cameron England
in News.com.au
Greenpower users will be double billed if changes to the new greenhouse gas reporting system are not made, says University of Adelaide climate change Professor Barry Brook.
This could cause the GreenPower national accreditation scheme to "implode" when an emissions trading scheme is introduced in 2010.
Professor Brook said the almost 750,000 households and businesses using GreenPower nationally would be penalised once an emissions trading scheme was introduced as they would be paying extra to buy power from renewable sources.
They also would pay extra - with all other electricity users - to compensate for the cost of carbon once... [continue via Web link]
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