In 2018 the Australian government chased its energy tail. Here's a more hopeful story

While the government continued to trash Australia’s international reputation by reaffirming allegiance to coal on the global stage, lying about progress on our climate commitments and dismissing the findings of the landmark IPCC report, the transformation in our electricity sector tells a different and hopeful story.

‘Almost everyone in the energy sector now accepts that
renewables are cheaper than building new coal capacity’ 

Attacks by the former prime minister Tony Abbott and his environment minister Greg Hunt on the renewable energy target, and the investment strike that followed, are a fading memory. Momentum is now unstoppable.

In the three years from 2018 Australia will install a little over 12 gigawatts of renewables, as much as was installed in the 30 years after the country’s first windfarm opened at Salmon Beach in Western Australia in 1987.

Read the opinion piece from The Guardian by Simon Holmes à Court - “In 2018 the Australian government chased its energy tail. Here's a more hopeful story.”