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"The head of the Australian Energy Market Operator has declared that there is
“no going back” to an electricity system based around “baseload and peaking”
power, as Australia’s grid surges towards high levels of renewables.
“So the paradigm shift underway in our power system is from the economics of
baseload and peaking, to renewables and firming,” AEMO chief executive Daniel
Westerman said in an address to a CEDA event in Melbourne on Thursday.
“And there is no going back.”
Westerman’s comments should not be controversial, given the change in
technology costs and options, and the country’s ageing coal fleet. The head of
all the major energy utilities in Australia agree that the grid must move
beyond the age of baseload.
But his comments do come just two days before the federal polling day and in
the midst of an election campaign where the energy debate has pitched a future
of renewables and storage from Labor (and the Greens and Teals) against that of
the nuclear, coal and gas baseload grid pitched by the federal Coalition."
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
