If you compare the June quarter from a year ago, black coal-fired power generation was up about 7.25% and the brown coal-sourced variety was up 4.4%, according to Dylan McConnell, an energy expert at the University of New South Wales.
That was quite a jump. The nearest comparable increase was the June quarter of 2015, when coal-fired production rose by 2682 gigawatt-hours, or 7.7% from a year earlier. The prompt back then was the end of the carbon price, McConnell said.
Brown coal alone rose more than 10% and black coal 6.5% in that rebound...
