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Climate change and electric vehicles : Comments
By Don Aitkin, published 10/11/2017What the ACT Government has done is to commission solar and wind generation, much of it outside the ACT, that is a contribution to the grid.
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http://www.kingislandrenewableenergy.com.au/
so we can see where their electricity is coming from at any moment in time. When the interstate connector from a wind farm is down we'll know how they worked around it, not by using coal power of course. Or if a drought decimates hydro how the ACT ended up using most of the output but not neighbouring Queanbeyan.
Google and Apple are now saying some of their server farms are 100% renewable powered. If you buy an REC for daytime solar power apparently that means you are using solar at night. I also suggest the ACT should have its own wind farms such as on Mt Majura. When they are outside the ACT it's like clothing made in sweatshops insofar as the beneficiary doesn't see what others had to go through.
One achievement for the ACT would be to encourage schoolkids to question the territory government's claims.