The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

  • youngalfred@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    But but the government is going to scrap a big pumped hydro project and replace it with lots of small ones (that haven’t been budgeted for at all).

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      22 days ago

      to be fair, its not like snowy 2.0 has been a huge success. How late and over budget is it at this point?

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        22 days ago

        At this point every single infrastructure project will be over budget and late… literally all of them thanks to covids construction madness and increased cost of materials and inflation and low unemployment rate