Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, we need to optimise the build.
- Senior Research Officer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
To achieve a target of 82% renewable energy generation by 2030 requires a huge number of new sites for solar and wind farms.
New research finds Japan has 14 times more solar and offshore wind energy potential than needed to supply all its current electricity demand. It doesn’t need Australia.
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