One bet that one can have on Australia and it's management of it's power generation and transmission systems going forward for the foreseeable is a pretty sure bet
it will be a continuation of the quality of the management of the situation as it's been for decades -
which is basically - a very large cockup
to me - all of what we see in Oz -------- be it power, gas, transportation, health, education, drivers licences, estate issues, real estate sales systems, housing, -------- the list is long long long long --
are a clusteroot of multilayer government overlays and cockups
much of which sheets directly home to the system of government - in particular a federation
I cannot see a great improvement whilst such a dud system remains in place.
There are, of course, a lot of downsides to central control - time is something - it takes time for changes to filter out of central control often - but, not always
but, there're a lot of benefits to national control - to be done with the total craziness of trying to have things like national grids and networks whilst having to drag a gaggle of states into some kind of agreement
it's pretty basic stuff - stick 9 aussies in a circle ----------- ask a question
when did you ever see that they all agreed?
never --------- and never will
so, don't expect a lot of action with 6 states and several territories
god help us if ever Jervis Bay Territory decides to go it's own way from the ACT
