Foxy,

You have your opinions, I have my facts. Many energy professionals have claimed that Labor's 45% target by 2030 would require the installation rate of renewables to be increased by about 500%.

Labor's target was virtue signalling and never realistic. Another Labor lie.

Foxy,

The AEMO is not political

"Australia faces an increased risk of blackouts in Victoria and South Australia this summer with delays in delivering new generation and transmission sparking an urgent call from the market operator to plug the supply shortage or face a decade where power supplies cannot be guaranteed.

The stark forecast underscores growing alarm within the Australian Energy Market Operator and piles new pressure on the Albanese government to deliver its ambitious pledge to more than double the level of renewable energy in the system to 82 per cent by 2030 that it said would slash $275 a year from household power bills within years.
AEMO has incrementally elevated its warnings about the pace of building new renewable energy to replace fossil fuels within its annual report known as the Energy Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) – which is a blueprint that shapes government policy.

But the 2023 report warns the country’s National Electricity Market is precariously placed and “imminent and urgent” investment must be delivered to safeguard the system.
Daniel Westerman, chief executive of AEMO, said the situation is increasingly urgent and warnings must be heeded.

“The story for Australia is becoming more and more clear, but also more and more urgent,” Mr Westerman told The Australian."

Dear Shadow Minister,

The Australian Financial Review's recent report tells
us that "the consensus among energy experts is that
Australia's very challenging clean energy transition may
be impossible to reach Labor's ambitious 43% emission
reduction and 82% renewable energy targets by 2030."

The report says that the government needs to set aside
the potential political embarrassment and order a robust
assessment of where the energy transition is at.

That is something that I am sure the government will do.

Foxy,

Thanks for admitting that I was right.

However, a robust assessment by Labor is unlikely as they have done diddley squat in spite of this being common knowledge for a while.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Not true.

I think our current Prime Minister by setting the
example of being willing to consult experts and
ask for a variety of opinions on issues from all
sides - shows that he will take the necessary
steps.

Foxy,

The time to consult experts is before you legislate a half-arsed and impossible policy and target. The expert advice has been out there for more than a year and the time for inaction has long passed.