Flaying a NEG: modelling points to emissions intensity plan

By Peter Hannam
Updated November 22 2017 - 10:23pm, first published 9:52pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull downs a double espresso when he visited The Baker at Sutton with minister Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday 25 October 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull downs a double espresso when he visited The Baker at Sutton with minister Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday 25 October 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares

The Turnbull government's preferred energy plan uses modelling in line with an Emissions Intensity Scheme that it rejected while significant doubts remain over the application of its reliability rules, two factors that may stymie its acceptance by right-wing Coalition MPs and the states supposed to implement it.