Nationals say renewables can’t meet energy needs without fossil support. But do the claims firm up? | Temperature Check
by Graham Readfearn from on (#64632)
David Littleproud and Matt Canavan have turned the scare rhetoric up to 11, but the energy market operator has already accounted for much of their criticisms
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Australia's electricity networks are going through a revolution, with massive solar and wind farms, huge batteries and new hydro-electric plants pushing out coal and gas.
If necessity (read: the climate crisis) is the mother of invention, then getting our energy without burning fossil fuels is the only idea on the drawing board.
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