Energy ministers will decide which technologies will be eligible in a capacity mechanism, but the ESB chief says emissions cuts could be built into its design.
The demolition of the Wallerawang coal fired power station near Lithgow, NSW. (Credit: Greenspot/Liberty Industrial).
AEMO roadmap still assumes all brown coal generation gone by 2032, but future roadmaps may point to black coal generators closing around the same time.
AEMO says the energy chaos is likely to accelerate the switch to renewables, but the scale of the transition is immense, and the need to act is urgent.
AEMO reveals new generation and project proposals now total more than 150GW, as it prepares to release latest 20-year blueprint of how to connect it all to the grid.
The ISP will go down as the pivotal model for the energy transition, the one that irreversibly moved the dial. Here’s how it might accommodate offshore wind.