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Australia’s energy grid is in trouble
There is serious and widespread disquiet across the operational end of the electricity industry about how long before something goes bang.
Matthew WarrenEnergy expertDecarbonising Australia’s economy was never going to be cheap or easy. That’s just something we wanted to believe, a positivity bias nourished by an ideological approach to a complex engineering problem.
Eliminating our emissions will require a complete rebuild of the nation’s energy systems. This will be an orchestrated industrial revolution: immense, expensive and risky. A great leap into the unknown, a gigantic space program where we are all on board for the ride.
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