It passed largely unnoticed, but a NSW energy market meltdown has sparked warnings the energy transition is veering off the road.
  • In short: A meltdown in the NSW electricity market has prompted warnings that Australia’s energy transition is off course.
  • Sustained extraordinary costs earlier in the month forced the market operator to step in and cap prices in NSW.
  • What’s next? A huge NSW coal plant will be kept online longer but there are worries about a shortage of new capacity.
  • TheHolm
    46·
    5 months ago

    And they still do not want go nuclear, without base generation power grid will takes decades to transition out of coal. We do not have that time.

      • TheHolm
        14·
        5 months ago

        Did I say that it is impossible? It is possible but take way too long and will cost too much. Not to mention huge environmental cost of renewables comparing to nuclear.

        • Taleya
          1·
          5 months ago

          They’ve had literal decades to get their arses into gear, tough shit if they backed themselves into a ‘costly’ corner

    • notgoldEnglish
      42·
      5 months ago

      Thank Greenpeace for fighting against nuclear in the 80s and 90s. I remember them handing out leaflets on Swanson St around 1990 trying to persuade the public against low carbon emission technologies.
      Having said that I think we are past breeder reactors as an option in Australia. SMR and MSR is something that we should get behind. Aukus treaty will change that up though. Australia will have our own nuclear reactors floating off shore soon enough not just the American ones that visit us from time to time.