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Originally Posted by Kal
Do you have a link to this or is this just personal speculation?
In the government's own report from 2010 they show that coal made up 72% of Australian electricity production in 2007-08 and this is projected to fall to 43% in 2029-30.
Also, the answers you seek are pretty much contained in that pdf. Alot of new capacity will come from natural gas fired plants, with renewables doubling in capacity over the next two decades. |
Closure of coal fired plants has been widely reported.... one such example
http://www.theage.com.au/environment...skin=text-only
As for the government's report... I have a healthy distrust of most government sponsored reports and modeling. For example, the NSW RTA cocked-up projected traffic flows along the M5 east by a factor of 17x.
20% may be, even a factor of two you could forgive, but, over an order of magnitude and then some??
If I made a similar error, say in fuel estimates for my job, a LAX-SYD flight would come to an abrupt end just past the LA coast....