Guardian Australia: Australia and Energy Outlook

guardian australia: Dan Van Holst Pellekaan, the Liberal energy minister, is talking about South Australia hitting 100% net renewables by the 2030s, according to The Independent. When asked to explain what that means, he tells Guardian Australia producing more renewable energy in South Australia than we need for our own consumption and exporting the surplus . There is no talk of coal, apart from the inevitability of its displacement. But if we shift our vantage point to Adelaide, Australia's near-term energy outlook looks very different. The South Australian renewables export plan relies on a new interconnector with New South Wales. Coalition considers letting power companies buy offsets to cut emissions Read more Then we start to displace coal in NSW, he says. Van Holst Pellekaan says if the proposed interconnector is approved, there are opportunities to construct large-scale solar and wind farms in the north-east of the state, on pastoral land, adjacent to the transmission equipment. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.