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Bowen hits back at Dutton while announcing tender for renewables
The federal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has argued in favour of building nuclear power stations to replace retiring coal-fired generators. On the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, Dutton queried the impact of renewables projects and said they required a “social licence”.
We can’t turn the old system off until the new one is ready. I know people want to pretend wind and solar can go around the clock, it can’t.
The rain doesn’t always fall, but we always have water on tap because we store it for when we need it – our energy plan does just the same thing for reliable renewables.
Our plan is delivering the certainty and confidence the market needs to deliver the energy we need, when we need it.
Continue reading…Tender for 6GW of new power generation includes a renewables deal for 2.2GW of power for NSW. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBowen hits back at Dutton while announcing tender for renewablesThe federal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has argued in favour of building nuclear power stations to replace retiring coal-fired generators. On the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, Dutton queried the impact of renewables projects and said they required a “social licence”.We can’t turn the old system off until the new one is ready. I know people want to pretend wind and solar can go around the clock, it can’t.The rain doesn’t always fall, but we always have water on tap because we store it for when we need it – our energy plan does just the same thing for reliable renewables.Our plan is delivering the certainty and confidence the market needs to deliver the energy we need, when we need it. Continue reading…