NSW premier Chris Minns and treasurer Daniel Mookhey have written to the NSW Labor party in the wake of new corruption allegationsIn his speech to the National Press Club, Chris Bowen will say areas earmarked for nuclear plants – like Port Augusta, Lithgow and central Queensland – require major investment and revitalisation as soon as possible, not a decade from now under the Coalition’s nuclear announcement.Bowen said those areas “need jobs and investment now”, claiming the Coalition’s nuclear plan would lead to uncertainty in energy markets and threaten investment in renewable energy. He will claim:The biggest problem of all is that in Australia, nuclear and renewables are simply incompatible. While the opposition purports to support an “all of the above” energy mix, their ideological pursuit of nuclear reactors in two decades’ time would wreck the renewables rollout now.Baseload nuclear plants simply don’t stack up economically in a grid with significant renewable generation.Far and away the biggest threat to reliability in our grid is over reliance on aging coal fired power stations. Over the last year, not a single day has passed without an unplanned outage at a coal power generator in eastern Australia. Continue reading…
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Author : Emily Wind
Publish date : 2024-07-16 21:38:26
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