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"Amid soaring energy costs, the new Labor government is working to deliver a
A$20 billion pledge to rebuild and modernise Australia’s electricity grid. It
will help deliver a plan for 122 gigawatts of new renewable energy in the
National Electricity Market by 2050, eventually replacing coal generation.
The transition will bring significant social, economic and environmental
change. Electricity generation in New South Wales, for example, will shift from
the concentrated coal power of the Hunter Valley and Central Coast to multiple
sites across the state’s centre, north and southwest.
The shift also entails a host of new infrastructure. According to our
calculations, the predicted extra renewable energy capacity will require
nationally 24,000 large wind turbines or around 2,000 large solar farms, as
well as new large-scale batteries.
So, in the first major study of its kind, we travelled to where renewable
energy is expanding in NSW to ask communities how they feel about the changes.
While their outlook was generally positive, governments can do more to ensure
community support for the transition."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
