All of these RET-promising ratbags are going to end up with their trousers around their ankles; it's criminal that those of us who see the disaster coming will still have to pay for the ignorant stupidity and pick up the pieces.

The only one that seems believable? Is almost completely hydro powered, tiny Tassie?

As for the rest. there would seem to be a lot of book cooking/imaginative accounting going into these numbers?

Why? Because carbon free nuclear energy is not part of our policy! Why not? Because for peaceful purpose only, carbon free nuclear energy is not part of our policy!

Yes I know that's what you've already said. Let me rephrase the with, why ever not?

Off the record? Yes off the record.

Because nuclear energy regardless of purpose, no matter how safe and affordable, is never ever going to be part of our policy, even when we claim in public we are technology agnostic, judge us not on what we say but what we do or promote!

Coal, coal nothing but coal, beautiful coal.
Coal is so easy and good for the soul.
Come let us follow, down to the hollow.
Where we can shovel, millions of tons of sorrow.
Don't worry now, reserve it for tomorrow
Yet personally profitable, beautiful coal.

And incidentally, my personal at arms length bank balance/dividend stream.

Does that answer your question or explain the current energy crisis?

Sadly, yes it does and many other things as well, like unaffordable housing, congested cities and the list's yards long! Unlike my forbearance or patience!

A pox on both your houses and bring on the next election!
Alan B.

If King Island can have a realtime dashboard as to where its power is coming from
http://www.kingislandrenewableenergy.com.au/
then so should the ACT. That way we could see how they work around interstate connectors going down and also what percentage of a particular clean energy output they are consuming. For example if national hydro was 2,000 MW could ACT with under 2% of the population be consuming say 20%?

ACT might also explain why neighbouring Queanbeyan is so dreadfully dependent on coal when they share the same power lines. The Nemwatch website has been amended to include batteries so surely they could include interstate imports and exports.

Apart from fudged figures? Why renewables? Because they are not coal and carbon free! Always providing you exclude the carbon created in their manufacture!

Nuclear energy is also carbon free energy that's safer than coal. But also has safety problems created by the massive pressures they operate under! Plus the costs of eriching already costly fuel and the engineered safety that makes this energy so expensive and unreliable.

Even so, has not stopped a technically advanced Russian from stealing a march and now threatening reprisals if we in the west attack one of her alleged allies, even though constantly threatened by one of them, the stalking horse for a new axis of evil. Or try to lever the annexed Crimea back from them?

And clever given this power junkie followed through, what would be left of the world and who would Russia trade with then?

There is only one answer to this kind of threat! A total commercial boycott and trade embargo on Russia and all who do business with it!

And as that kicks in, crack on with our own nuclear development And let a sabre rattling Mr Putin know we have a doomsday bomb that can turn our small green planet into a star albeit, in steller terms, a very brief one.

And able to be deployed as the ultimate deterrent and or reprisal that will take out Mr Putin in the deepest hole he can hide in! Unless he's on the Russian space station and then where he'd survive for a very limited time!

Better dead than red!

This recent Russian revelation has made a complete nonsense out of the nuclear proliferation treaty and our continued observance of it!

We ought to crack on with ours if only to gain complete energy independence, that alone guarantees our security!
Alan B.

The reality is that renewable targets like all other virtue signalling has nothing to do with facts.

If SA Labor was entirely honest, it would need to include all the emissions from brown coal generated power it is forced to import, when generation is low and subtract the zero emission power wind power exported when the wind and solar generators generate more than SA can consume.

Yes S.M., And never shall the word nuclear regardless of the compelling evidence, pass their lips? NEVER!

Even when those still able to apply logics rites and rational critical thinking to this conflated and deliberately convoluted debate! Understand our only possible and profitable future and that of the planet, rests solely and absolutely on AFFORDABLE, carbon free nuclear energy.

Some believe we can rely exclusively on solar energy and other renewables, because this is getting cheaper!? Even in the face of wages inflation of around 30% P.A. in China?

Maybe that price reduction had more to do with the removal of some subsidies? Which seemed to have proved we've been massively price gouged by this industry.

Why should the nations grans need to die of heat stroke during the next enduring heatwave, just so some solar power advocates can keep on making a price gouged and seriously subsidised profit/fortune?

And only possible if we delay and delay rolling out non coal dispatchable,base load power that even Gran can afford!

Alvin Weinberg, inventor and patent holder of the first nuclear reactor, said and I paraphrase, I believe our future is a nuclear one and based on molten salt reactors, and more specifically thorium powered reactors.

Now, you'd think the father of nuclear energy, would understand which nuclear technology was superior!?

And hard to understand why or alleged representatives don't and consistently refuse to even do more than commission an easily overlooked report. TBC.
Alan B.