Sorry old mate. Your shock jock fairy stories don't cut it here.
The facts don't lie. South Australia, even with not enough renewable energy infrastructure built and no large storage system, still manages to produce 50% of it's power from renewables.
A relatively immature system already delivering the goods. Imagine how good it will be in a decade ? About half the time it would take to build an expensive, redundant, waste producing nuclear reactor.
That's South Australia that has Olympic Dam, and more recently, the Portland Smelter running off it.
" The shift to more than 50% clean energy in South Australia led to the lowest average wholesale power prices in the national electricity grid over the past two months, an audit has found.According to the national energy emissions audit published by the Australia Institute, South Australia has had lower monthly wholesale electricity prices than Victoria since January, than New South Wales since August and than Queensland and Tasmania for the past two months.It is the first time the state has had cheaper wholesale power than all other states for consecutive months. It coincided with the percentage of electricity from wind and solar energy in the state reaching nearly 65% in November. Australia changed its historical carbon emissions data: what happened? Read more Hugh Saddler, the author of the monthly audit and an associate professor at the Australian National University, said wind and solar power supplied more than 50% of the electricity generated in South Australia for most months over the past two years. “That’s made electricity in SA the cheapest in the national electricity market and dramatically increased reliability.”
