AEMO urges quicker shift to renewables amid coal failures and soaring fossil fuel costs

It seems the good old fossil fuel industry continues to let the Australia electricity customer down.

Aided by the incompetence of 9 years of the COALition.

" The Australian Energy Market Operator has called for an accelerated shift to wind and solar, backed up by batteries and other storage, as a devastating combination of coal plant failures and soaring fossil fuel costs and bidding changes pushed electricity prices to unprecedented levels in the June quarter.

Its latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report paints a bleak picture of the risks of relying on legacy fossil fuel industry, prone to outages, plant failures, soaring fuel costs, and bidding patterns that combined to push the price of electricity to unsustainable levels. "

https://reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-urges-accelerated-shift-to-renewables-amid-coal-failures-and-soaring-fossil-fuel-costs/