{"id":62900,"date":"2022-06-16T05:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62900"},"modified":"2022-06-16T05:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:44:41","slug":"not-enough-renewables-minister-blames-australian-electricity-shortage-on-lack-of-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62900","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Bowen, Labor Party’s minister for energy and climate change, speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 16, 2022. (AAP Image\/Lukas Coch)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Energy Minister\u00a0Chris Bowen<\/a>\u00a0has blamed Australia\u2019s current electricity shortage on a supposed lack of investment in renewable energy and storage facilities from the previous government.<\/p>\n

The Labor minister was responding to questions on whether Australia should simply increase\u2014or repair\u2014coal-fired energy generators that already provide around 64.67 percent of the country\u2019s total electricity, as of December 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is there hasn\u2019t been enough investment in renewable energy,\u201d Bowen told reporters on June 16. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been enough investment in storage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, you can say the wind doesn\u2019t always blow, and the sun doesn\u2019t always shine. Well, the rain doesn\u2019t always fall out there, but we managed to store the water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can store the renewable energy if we have the investment, and that investment has been lacking for the last decade. That\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of coal, the National Electricity Market is supported (pdf<\/a>) by wind power (10.45 percent of total generation), hydro (7.21 percent), individual solar systems (7.09 percent), gas (6.57 percent), and grid-scale solar (3.85 percent) among others.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Australia has been one of the fastest nations to\u00a0adopt rooftop solar technology<\/a>\u00a0installing over 380,000 systems in 2021, with the Clean Energy Regulator saying the combined amount of electricity generated was 3,200 megawatts.<\/p>\n

Further, experts have noted that simply building more batteries to increase storage capacity\u00a0was unfeasible<\/a>. One of the world\u2019s largest battery storage systems is\u00a0FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center in Florida, which can power approximately 329,000 homes but for only a two hour period.<\/p>\n

Another problem with increasing battery production would be an increased reliance on Chinese supply chains, which would be risky considering the willingness of the Chinese Communist Party to leverage trade relationships in geopolitical disputes.<\/p>\n

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Chris Bowen, Labor Party’s minister for energy and climate change, speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 16, 2022. (AAP Image\/Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy Energy Minister\u00a0Chris Bowen\u00a0has blamed Australia\u2019s current electricity shortage on a supposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[41,31680,15442,16350],"class_list":["post-62900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-daniel-y-teng","tag-renewables","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62901,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions\/62901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}