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A survey of the world's solar panels shows a global energy boom (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 days ago by hanrahan to c/environment@aussie.zone

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With vast amounts of space, intense sunshine and a leading role in solar power’s creation, Australia is an ideal candidate to take advantage of the solar revolution.

But that’s not been the case so far for large-scale solar. In 2023, Australia fell out of the top 10 countries for solar installations for the first time in three decades.

We’ve seen mega-projects struggle to get off the ground and have been unable to fully capitalise on our geographic advantage.

As is all too common in this space, large-scale solar power has been politicised, with the Nationals calling for renewables projects in regional areas to be scrapped.

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The fact that even the very right-wing Texas is going hard on solar and batteries just goes to show how strong the economic case for it is. Dutton's idiotic nuclear plan stands in stark contrast.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

The framing should be:

Remember when the Coalition wrecked the NBN? Now let’s see what happens when they wreck the power system.

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

TX has been big on wind power, too, and for a long time.

[–] hanrahan 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Found it ironic, an article in The Land newspaper in my RSS Feed just near the ABC article I posted above

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Canada is an embarrassment.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

AFAIK it's because there's not that much money to be made with large scale solar in Australia, when like 3/4ths of the year the wholesale price of electricity is negative due to too much solar there's not much incentive to build it, the money is in grid firming now (battery/hydro/wind/etc)

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Alright, now to get all the solar to power air conditioning