Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces a $62 billion Queensland energy and jobs plan, including two new pumped hydro facilities she says that will be bigger than the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme.
abc.net.au/news/queensland-government-energy-pumped-hydro-scheme-jobs-palaszczuk/101481160Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a $62 billion Queensland energy and jobs plan, including the biggest pumped hydro scheme in the world.
She also said 70 per cent of the state's energy supply would be from renewables by 2032, and 80 per cent by 2035. "Today I am also announcing the second preferred pumped hydro site 70 kilometres west of Mackay for renewable energy storage," she said. "These are projects of national significance on a scale not seen since the construction of Snowy Hydro — bigger than Snowy Hydro."
"Infrastructure at the clean energy hubs will include: continuing to use the large spinning turbines at the power stations to provide strength for the energy system to take more renewables; grid scale batteries; gas and then later hydrogen power stations; and maintenance hubs for nearby government-owned renewable wind and solar farms," she said.She said the government would not convert coal power stations "until there is a replacement firmed generation".