March 9, 2020
...AND CHEAPER...:
Renewables keep crunching Australia's electricity emissions - no thanks to federal policy (Sophie Vorrath, 9 March 2020, Renew Economy)
From 2018, says the report's author, Hugh Saddler, "rooftop solar was sufficient to meet all of the (relatively modest) growth in total electricity consumption in the (National Electricity Market), with the result that electricity supplied through the NEM grid stayed almost exactly constant."Meanwhile, in the large-scale sector, new wind and solar capacity had displaced, in varying proportions, black coal, brown coal and gas generation, resulting in a steady fall in emissions.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 9, 2020 12:00 AM