Experts say the state's brown coal reserves could provide a 'safety net', but ageing power plants and instability from the interconnected national energy market may still pose a threat.
Meanwhile another key part of Gippsland's coal-fired power infrastructure remains offline, and is unlikely to be back up and running until September.A Victorian government spokesman said despite the outages at Yallourn and Loy Yang A the state still had 75 per cent of its capacity online.
"There's nothing like domestic zero-emissions, cheap, renewable energy to actually underpin affordable, reliable and zero-emissions power for the people of Victoria," he said. Renewable energy sources such as wind turbines collectively generate just over a quarter of Victoria's electricity supply. "However, there are times when, as they say, the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, and something needs to provide that electricity during those times.
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