‘Ignorant rubbish’: PM under fire over renewables lecturing Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has lashed out at the prime minister, accusing him of peddling “ignorant rubbish” over renewable energy. SBS World News,
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AAP Malcolm Turnbull has taken another swipe at the renewable energy policies of some state governments as he and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews exchanged angry words over the issue.
Mr Andrews lashed out at the prime minister, accusing him of peddling “ignorant rubbish” over renewable energy after South Australia was blacked out in ferocious storms this week……..
Mr Andrews told ABC radio on Friday Mr Turnbull was “peddling ignorant rubbish, lecturing people about things he knows nothing about and conflating an extreme weather event”.
“It seems like Tony Abbott is back.”
The prime minister had no credibility when he talked about establishing a national renewable energy scheme.
“We are the only jurisdiction in the developed world that had a price on carbon and got rid of it and had a renewable energy target and wound it back,” Mr Andrews said.
The only way Australia could reach the Commonwealth’s renewable energy target of 23.5 per cent by 2020 was through the ambitions of state schemes.
Queensland and South Australia are aiming for 50 per cent and Victoria for 40 per cent, although over longer time frames.
Queensland’s acting energy minister Leeanne Enoch said her state was sticking to its target.
“You never know which Malcolm Turnbull you’re going to get – are we going to get the renewable champion one day and then we’re going to get an almost climate denier the next day,” she said.
“It’s bizarre.”…….http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/09/30/ignorant-rubbish-pm-under-fire-over-renewables-lecturing
October 1, 2016
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We need to speed up the switch to renewables SOUTH AUSTRALIA, The Age, Oliver Clifton OCTOBER 1 2016
The blackout was not a failure of wind or solar. It was proof that we need to speed up the switch to renewables. It shows the vulnerability of a grid system in transition and a failure to think beyond a mandated renewable energy target. The old power network is a “one to many” design, with large-scale, point source generation and energy flowing in one direction. The future grid will be “many to many” – when one path is under stress, the current finds an alternative route. This also balances supply and demand for when the wind is not blowing in a particular area, as well as battery storage, consumer-side load switching, etc. However, building renewable capacity alone will not give us a reliable, low-carbon energy system. We need rapid transition of the grid, as well as everything that plugs into it. Urgent priority should be given to a national carbon tax. We should open up the economy to the innovation of the market. This is the fastest, cheapest and most effective solution.
The demonisation of the clean energy sector, Andrew Laird
Voters were promised leadership and innovation if they re-elected the Turnbull government. Sadly, the naked opportunism that it displayed this week suggests that neither will be forthcoming. It is deeply troubling that a government which is the beneficiary of large “donations” from the structurally declining fossil fuel sector never misses an opportunity to demonise the job and investment-creating clean energy sector. http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-letters/we-need-to-speed-up-the-switch-to-renewables-20160930-grsbfb.html
October 1, 2016
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