I reported on Thursday how an unexpected outage at Victoria’s second-largest coal-fired power station had heightened concerns that colder weather could strain the market and drive up wholesale electricity prices.
I noted that the renewables would use the outage as an opportunity to label coal-fired generation “unreliable” and as justification for Labor’s renewables rollout to meet its fanciful 82% renewable energy target by 2030.
“As usual, they will overlook the stark reality that wind and solar power are highly intermittent and unreliable due to their reliance on the weather”, I wrote on Thursday.
