It gets worse; the Danish Wind turbine company Vattenfall has refused
to tender to the UK government for Sea wind turbines.
Stating they are too maintenance intensive and unreliable.
That should be a flag that Bowen should notice.
It is obvious that no one will build a solar farm unless the grid is
already in place.
So every day that this goes on is 22,000 solar panels
that did not get installed.
The climate warriors have got us into this mess but I do not see them
even acknowledging that there is a problem.
What would I do ?
I would call for tenders for Gas Turbine power stations as I think they
could be quick builds.
Re nukes a friend who was boss at Lucas Heights from its beginning till
his retirement gave a talk at the local radio club on the nuclear
industry.
Australia he said should establish a yellow cake processing plant to
produce uranium fuel and sell it for a better deal than ore sales.
We should establish a spent fuel processing plant and take other
countries spent fuel.
We could take other countries waste and make a fortune.
We could establish three power plants to use depleted fuel and pass
used fuel through each in turn and the fuel out of the third plant
would be low activity for storage.
Others would pay us for these services and we would have all
the electricity we could use while making a fortune from other's waste.
Keith, as was his name, was involved in the invention of the magnetron
used in airborne radar and went to the US to show them how to make them.
He then disappeared into the US nuclear field and reappeared for
the British nuclear tests at Monte Bellow.
He worked at nuclear power stations in the UK then came back to
Australia to build the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay.
The foundations were laid when PM Billy McMahon chickened out !
Keith then was given the job to get Lucas Heights running.
Therein lies the beginning of our energy problems.

You are right Bazz. Nuclear could deliver Australia cheaper low-carbon energy, generate foreign income and provide many jobs. The renewable con will leave Australia destitute.

So why doesn't the government remove the nuclear energy ban, especially as they claim the major impediment to developing nuclear energy in Australia is an economic one? Why did they get renewable energy spruikers at CSIRO to do nuclear energy costings instead of ANSTO? To answer those questions you need look further than the recent ALP conference which revealed a cult extremist anti-nuclear ideology.

The ban on nuclear power in Australia needs to be lifted.

The Labour party cannot do it even if they do not still believe in renewables.
They are simply the captive of the greens, Albo will do as he is told.
If I was the opposition I would be going the rounds of the likely
SMR manufacturers and ask them to start working up likely tenders for
Australia so they could be lodged quickly after the next election.
I would do it openly, it would leak anyway, and so the electors would
see you were fair dinkum.
By the next election blackouts will be a regular event, so Albo's
protest about sussing out smr tenders would be ignored.
The other option is to force a No Confidence Motion in Parliament.
That won't happen until blackouts start.
I have a relative that cannot believe that the greens and Labour
would get us into this sort of a mess and it is all just a plot of
News Corp and the Liberal Party.
She just does not realise how STUPID they are.

I have just come across this statement on the NEM web site;
Quote
We're aiming to enable 100% renewable energy at any point in time
Our goal is to co-design and co-engineer the NEM and the WEM to manage 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables at any moment on any day by 2025.
Unquote
Does that say what I think it means ?
I have not even heard Bowen say that ! Only 1 1/2 years away !

Talking with a friend the other day I was told that Germany did a 20+ year survey on the reduction of emission from operating wind & solar farms. Apparently, it was found that wind & solar operate with 2% less emission than coal. All these savings apparently do not include the emission from the manufacture of the wind/solar infrastructure !
If anyone has any info on that survey/study please present it.

Individual, I have not seen anything about it.
However now that Britain looks like either reducing or scrapping
NetZero Germany is making similar noises.
Sweden of course officially abandoned Net Zero.

Reading about our governments slow progress with renewables and how
the completion time is extending together with the lifetime of solar
and wind I realise that we have misunderstood the meaning of the word renewables.
It means that they are renewable every 20 years or so !