We should focus on rooftop solar – Australians love it
Last modified on Tue 19 Mar 2024 02.31 CETmissing element from much of the debate about whether Australia should embrace nuclear power is that – unless the Labor rank-and-file have an extraordinary change of heart – the issue is already dead on arrival.
The only circumstances in which Labor might grapple with these questions if there was evidence that nuclear power was needed to get Australia to near zero emissions energy. That isn’t the case. The advice from government agencies and nearly all energy experts is that renewable energy will be able to provide more than 90% of Australia’s electricity needs at much cheaper cost long before a nuclear industry could be built from scratch.
back a substantial government support program to accelerate the rollout of small-scale renewable energy systems that has had bipartisan support even as the climate wars have been fought. Rooftops provided more than 11% of the electricity in the national grid over the past year. According to Rewiring Australia’s budget submission, establishing the program would cost $2.8bn over three years, $10m of which would be spent rewriting the rules governing the national electricity market to allow electric households to compete against fossil fuel generators and retailers.
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