The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has reported that all new electricity generation proposals received in the last 12 months have been either for large scale wind farms or solar facilities. Of the 1,000MW of new generation committed in the past 12 months, AEMO says that 945.5MW came from six new wind farm projects, and a further 45.5 MW from new solar generation.
AEMO concluded that there was no need for any new thermal (fossil fuel) generation in Australia to be built for at least another decade (with the one exception to this being under its medium growth rate scenario in Queensland, and for some modest requirements in other states in the high growth scenario).
And while wind, solar and other renewables are on the rise, the use of black and brown coal is swiftly declining along with greenhouse emissions.
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Source: Renew Economy
