Thursday, January 2, 2020

South Australia reaches 50% renewables

From The Climate Council:

The percentage share of renewables in Australia's electricity generation continues to rise:

Source: The Climate Council.
Note: column 3 isn't the '% change' but the 'change in the percentage'
 Tasmania has a high renewables percentage because of its dams, but South Australia, being pretty flat and dry has few dams.  Its renewables growth is thanks to wind, and more recently rooftop and large scale solar.  At the rate at which renewables are being rolled out in SA, the state will reach 100% renewables by 2026, but the nation as a whole won't reach  100% renewables until 2040.  Actually, that's a respectable timeline, but the climate demands that we do it faster.  If we could push the national change in the percentage of renewables to 5%, we would achieve 100% renewables by 2035.   That's surely doable.

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