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Voters looking for climate and clean energy leadership following federal election : Comments
By Jono La Nauze, published 9/6/2022The federal election heralded a seismic shift in Australian politics and provided a much needed ray of hope for the clear majority of Australians.
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No power supply of any substance and reliability has ever been grounded on solar and wind, nor can it be. We can utilise, or tolerate, the present 26.5% of Victoria's annual electrical energy output coming from intermittent solar and wind only because we have a legacy of fossil fuel generators. They are on the way out. Will Environment Victoria ensure they are somehow replaced? We can safely bet not.
Also Environment Victoria should brace itself. "100% renewables”, where the present output of electrical energy comes from solar, wind, etc, is only a fraction, about a third, of real future clean energy needs for eliminating fossil fuels. In other words, Victoria is only about 9% of the way to the true target. Tell that to the boss!
It has been of great concern to watch energy choice becoming a beauty contest judged by uninformed citizen vote. It’s worse to see public office bearers with no expertise in energy matters applauding and influencing such choices