Snowy Hydro's Valley gas-fired power station, the government owned entity is set to add a new gas plant at Kurri Kurri to its portfolio (Credit: Snowy Hydro).
Snowy Hydro’s response to submissions to its controversial Kurri Kurri gas generator is riddled with obvious and important errors.
Several Australian states are going it alone on the the energy transition, forced to act on renewables after the federal government effectively vacated the policy space.
With high gas prices partly to blame for the electricity blackouts that hit SA this month, and gas-fired generators caught short in NSW two days later, there are calls for Australia’s onshore gas to flow much more freely.
The Hazelwood power station has been named Australia’s ‘dirtiest’ for its carbon emissions. Takver/Flickr, CC BY-SA
While we don’t know whether Hazelwood will close yet, we do know that Australia could easily replace the energy, and it could make a substantial difference to our carbon emissions.
With Labor promising half of Australia’s electricity will come from renewables in 2030, and the Coalition quick to reject carbon pricing again, it seems electricity prices are set to be a key point of contention in an Australian federal election yet again.