[Shiraz (Ray)]

Finally, after decades of wishful thinking, a government has produced a logical plan for power security and a low emission future in SA, based on a mixture of gas and renewables along with battery storage, plus a state owned generator to keep the bas#$@ds honest(er).

Seems that there was no point in waiting for the feds to act - they still seem to think that the failed national energy market will spookily sort it all out and that coal is the new clean energy source.

The situation is a bit crazy - the rules of the market apparently do not allow batteries to compete (a lot of changes will be needed there). The other crazy is that, with Australia soon to be the world's largest exporter of LNG, AGL is talking seriously of setting up a processing plant to import LNG into SEAus - possibly from Asia and at possibly more than double?? the price that we get when we sell the stuff into Asia. Where were our governments when the gas companies contracted to sell all the cheap LNG to other countries, leaving nothing for us...the market is a good mechanism in fixed environments, but it does not take the place of strategic planning.