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"Federal energy minister Chris Bowen has slammed calls to extend Australia’s
ageing coal-fired generators, saying that not a single day had passed in the
last three years without a breakdown, while also suggesting that data centres
could rescue stalled renewables projects and put the country back on a path to
its 2030 renewable targets.
In a major speech at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, where he
also unveiled plans to extend solar subsidies in the small-scale renewable
energy scheme to systems up to 1 MW, Bowen said that consumers were embracing
the green energy transition with the rapid uptake of solar, home batteries and
electric vehicles, which for the second consecutive month posted a market share
of more than 20 per cent in Australia.
He said this was despite a “wall of climate denial” and misinformation from the
various right-wing opposition parties, as well as in mainstream media and in
social media algorithms.
“Despite the loud attempts to ride the algorithms of social media to stop the
transition, the quiet majority of Australians are simply getting on with it,”
Bowen said.
This was important, he said, because coal fired generators were getting old and
increasingly unreliable.
“Three years in a row. Every single day. A coal outage somewhere in eastern
Australia,” Bowen said. “Coal isn’t baseload power anymore – it’s an unreliable
asset. Every time coal breaks down – your bills go up.”"
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
