Report says Australia can shift to renewables without price hikes

Monday April 12, 2021

Australia could move to 70 per cent renewables across the National Electricity Market with little risk to reliability or affordability, according to a new report.

Australia could achieve 70 per cent renewables without additional energy costs (Supplied)

Achieving 90 per cent renewables would be slightly more expensive, but would slash emissions at a relatively low cost, according to the unaligned Grattan Institute.

A report from Grattan’s Tony Wood and James Ha said that moving to a system with 70 per cent renewable energy – and closing about two-thirds of…

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