Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute, a think tank, said there was reason to be hopeful Australia could "get it right" with the transition but he cautioned the path would be littered with pitfalls.
Adding to the complexity, he said the job needed to be done when demand for the materials and workers were already in short supply across the globe."We've got to fundamentally turn this electricity [system] on its head now … most of it in the next 10 years, if not the next 15 to 20. "Lining this all up requires incredible coordination and cooperation between industry, government, community and the organisations that actually run the energy system."
AER chair Clare Savage said households were continuing to install rooftop solar in record volumes but many customers were struggling to deal with the hike in power prices.
amazing that the crisis is related to the privatisation of the energy market instead of brining efficiencies & productivity we have trashing & political games to further pilfer from customers & raxpayers without delivering a service shameful to do this to a necessity abcnews
Have the government's ever delivered anything on time and on budget. Expect to pay more for energy and prepare for blackouts. Our politicians don't care, they are never there long enough
Time to transition to nuclear power.
Who benefits, follow the money!
I remember when we had no renewables and cheap + reliable power. No we have some renewables with expensive and unreliable power. What will all renewable look like? 😔
No it isn’t - look at Northern Hemisphere after 20+years of same transition! To knowingly end our reliable energy sources is Negligent and an act of sabotage!
The tipping point for ABC/Greens to start planning their escape to Cuba
Disaster time
Green energy will never be self sustaining, coal will always be needed as a back up at least....
I do not get it why close down a coal plant which has still got half the life span of a renewables farm . It’s deliberately sabotaging of the Australian economy and should be treated as treason which the dictionary says it is
Australia had the luxury of watching Europes obsession with renewables wreck their economy, and then we do it anyway.
Transition to unreliable and expensive electricity to please warmies. This will not end well.
Without nuclear prepare yourself for blackouts
Big admission here re base-load power 'The timeline was announced as part of a major shake-up of the state's energy system that would include the construction of giant pumped hydro projects and big licks of renewable energy.'
‘Clock winds forward for coal’….. What utter BS you conservatives spin over there at ABC. Who is tipping you off? PeterDutton? Coal sector? We know whose side you’re on.
Who demolishes things, so to create a life worse for the living? What? Now does it mean more loss of power to consumers because they just knocked out another power plant, have you realised what happened when those others were? I did, and do, windmills can't keep up, green energy?
We need nuclear there is no other option.
dk_mercer Bowenchris All the while a Czech investor - a brown coal expert from North Bohemia - is allowed by the FIRB to buy Vales Point? Dom_Perrottet Matt_KeanMP
That should kill off a few grannies... Well done lefty hypocrites.
'Energy destruction', not 'transition'
The hate for coal is fundamentally an expression of irrational racist fears. If coal looked like quartz crystal no one would give a stuff.
Surely we must be very close to a tipping point of tipping points?
The transition from light into dark.
I'm wondering is the renewables cult following the events unfolding in Europe right now