Plans to open up the Central West of NSW to more renewable energy have generated overwhelming investor interest – topping $38 billion, or nine times the government’s available capacity.
Eventually both the state and federal governments are expected to spend a billion dollars each in part to strengthen grid connections to three renewable energy zones in NSW, inside which they will accelerate planning processes, co-ordinate designs and spur the involvement of local communities.The projects in the Central West are expected to bring 450 construction jobs to the region and generate enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes when completed.
“By co-ordinating development in a strategic way, [renewable energy zones] also help us get the land-use planning right, and renewables built in places that work for the community, not just developers," Mr Barilaro said.Janie Barrett While 3000MW of new capacity added from new renewables since the previous summer helped, the new wind and solar farms also added to the complexity of forecasting, especially when smoke and dust affected output.
p_hannam More environmental destruction, built with Aussie coal in China, loaded onto to trucks to the port, onto a ship, 10,000 kms to Aust port, cranes, trucks, hundreds of tonnes of concrete footings....kills thousands of birds of prey a year. One US wind farm kills over 1000 a year.
p_hannam Idiots
p_hannam Foreign investors know doubt. Lets take away the subsidies and see how cheep they are. Not so clean and green! auspol
p_hannam Investors want RENEWABLES the people of AUSTRALIA want affordable CLEAN COAL FIRED POWER STATIONS.
p_hannam Would some one give a bunch a TAFE kids a few bucks to design a generator based on wave motion Endless, renewable, clean........ reliable?
p_hannam Taxpayer fraud for junk science.
p_hannam Of course. That’s the only benefit of this industry.
p_hannam Better out there than on my roof.
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p_hannam Lovely subsidies are available!