Its U-turn over a gas-fired power station is based on short-term political motives, not conviction, the government says.
, Labor is now arguing that the plant should go ahead on the proviso it begins by using 30 per cent green hydrogen and uses 100 per cent green hydrogen by 2030 or as soon as possible.
Labor initially opposed the plant on the basis that the market, not taxpayers, should build it; not because it would be powered by gas and eventually hydrogen.Energy Minister Angus Taylor said Labor had shifted the goalposts in terms of its reasoning to try to cover up its backflip. Mr Taylor said forcing the plant to use 100 per cent green hydrogen by 2030 would make the power it generated more expensive because green hydrogen would not be commercially viable by then.
“But forcing it in any way is going to cost other taxpayers for electricity consumers. It doesn’t make economic sense.”Mr Albanese said expediting the plant’s use of green hydrogen would ensure its longer-term viability.
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