" Energy experts and government advisers dispute whether additional generation is needed to replace Liddell, and say there are cheaper and emissions-free alternatives to gas generation that can provide the “dispatchable” power needed to support variable solar and wind energy.
The chair of the Energy Security Board, Kerry Schott, told Guardian Australia gas was “expensive power”, and said a taxpayer-funded gas plant made little commercial sense given the abundance of cheaper options flooding the market.
A taskforce advising governments about the impact of the Liddell closure did not find an additional 1,000MW would be needed from a grid reliability standpoint, and listed a range of committed and probable projects that it found would be “more than sufficient”. "
This isn't about solving a energy deficit, this is about buying votes , nothing else.
Raider
