The federal minister for energy and climate change explains why the government’s on track to deliver cleaner energy for Australia – and why the opposition’s plans are a recipe for disaster.
: Minister, thank you for your time.
Bowen with Twiggy Forrest at a sod-turning ceremony marking the start of construction of a wind farm near Dubbo in January.: So our proposal is renewables, supported by big batteries, pumped hydrogen and transmission with gas “peaking and firming” – which means you turn it on or off as required. You obviously can’t do that with coal.: But if that is the case, and you are doing well, why is it that the Australian Energy Market Operator has warned: Well, they haven’t actually said that.
More than 2000 sheep and lambs are now grazing around the solar panels at ACEN Australia’s solar project in New England.: But to bring it back from high political machinations to Australia’s kitchen table, the Albanese government came in last election with a promise: to lower our power bills by $275, which obviously hasn’t happened. Was that a “non-core promise” to use John Howard’s infelicitous phrase?: I don’t engage in John Howard’s terminology.
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