Now imagine if the federal government hadn't denied mmcc and the need to transition to clean energy during their 9 years in office ?
lmagine instead of Abbott saying " climate change is crap " and cancelling the carbon tax that we actually had got on with infrastructure planning and building all those years ago ?
lnstead of the ScoMuppet and Taylor saying that they were waiting for technology to catch up . lnstead off the ScoMuppet bringing a lump of coal to parliament and claiming that " evs would ruin your weekend ".
9 years of lost opportunity .
Let's not forget that these projects attract taxpayer subsidies . So instead of sitting around for years doing nothing they could have been providing returns for taxpayers .
Sadly we've had to wait for federal Labor to put the big boy pants on get the ball rolling .
" Langworthy says the fear of solar is not the fault of solar technology, nor the fault of engineers in System Control, he blames the lack of government planning and a failure to do the necessary dynamic modelling, which would identify what the system needs to handle the shift to solar.
“I’ve been telling them for years they need to complete a dynamic model of the network,” he tells RenewEconomy. “I’m flabbergasted they don’t have one, nor the in-house skills to use it. It’s a complete failure of leadership from the Government in managing the grid going forward.”
