Can Labor turn a big win into a green energy reality?
Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
Offshore wind developer Andy Evans hopes Labor’s election win will give investors certainty about Australia’s energy transition. Louis Trerise
Renewables developer Andy Evans knows a thing or two about risk. As the founder of Australia’s first offshore wind project, Star of the South, and chief executive of clean energy businesses Oceanex and NewVolt, the Melbourne-based entrepreneur has a deeply personal interest in Australia’s green revolution – and the outcome of the recent federal election.
At the May 3 poll, Australia’s two major political parties offered profoundly different visions of the country’s energy future. For voters, the Coalition’s crazy brave proposal to replace ageing coal-fired power plants with a fleet of government-owned nuclear reactors stood in stark contrast to Labor’s equally ambitious plan to power the economy almost entirely from renewable sources.
