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Flawed logic behind a taxpayer-built gas generator – Sydney Morning Herald

We don’t need the additional 1000 megawatts of gas-fired electricity capacity that the federal government plans to build.

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In other words, the lights shouldnt go out.
And this expectation from the market operator excludes transmission upgrades and Snowy 2.0, which will contribute to ensuring reliability and reducing the likelihood of blackouts. It also excludes firming capacity supported by the NSW Emerging Energy program (170MW), the 60MW ACT battery, the Canberra big battery (250MW), and AGLs contracted batteries (200MW).
Further, the recently announced NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap aims to support another…

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