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Anthony Albanese and the Energy Security Board are determined to get the states’ agreement on a capacity mechanism to provide backup power. But that requires allowing Victoria to exclude coal and gas from any payment.
Germany’s decision to pass emergency laws to reopen mothballed coal mines is “bitter but essential”, according to its economic minister, Robert Habeck.
That Habeck is a member of the Green Party in coalition with the Social Democrats demonstrates the political contortions in a global energy transformation suddenly desperately short of fossil fuels.
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