{"id":14243,"date":"2021-12-10T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:13:00","slug":"energy-operator-maps-path-to-renewable-superpower-future-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/energy-operator-maps-path-to-renewable-superpower-future-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy operator maps path to renewable superpower future: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal and Labor need to join with the Greens in making the energy operator&#8217;s plan for a renewable superpower a reality, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said today.<br \/>\nThe draft\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aemo.com.au\/-\/media\/files\/major-publications\/isp\/2022\/draft-2022-integrated-system-plan.pdf\">Integrated System Plan<\/a>\u00a0released by the Australian Energy Market Operator includes 4 possible futures for the electricity grid, including a Hydrogen Superpower scenario which would see coal close within a decade.<br \/>\nThe Hydrogen Superpower scenario models what is necessary to meet the Paris and Glasgow target of 1.5 degrees of warming, with massive investment in wind, solar, storage and transmission, and almost quadruples electricity demand to allow the electrification of homes, businesses, transport and industry and to underpin massive exports in hydrogen and ammonia.<br \/>\nEven the Step Change scenario sees coal being phased out much earlier than either Liberal or Labor plan for, meaning the major parties\u2019 election policies keep coal in the system for much longer than necessary.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAustralia\u2019s energy operator is showing we can become a renewable energy superpower and end our dependence on coal and gas, but government needs to act.<br \/>\n\u201cCoal and gas can exit the system much sooner than either Labor or Liberal are planning. Labor and Liberal want to keep coal and gas in the system longer than necessary.<br \/>\n\u201cEven AEMO\u2019s more conservative Step Change scenario sees enormous amounts of coal go, but it won\u2019t happen if Liberal and Labor intervene to keep coal in.<br \/>\n\u201cThe engineers can do it and the industry sees it coming, but Liberal and Labor are pushing against the tide, using public money to keep coal and gas in the system, locking in decades of emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal and Labor need to join with the Greens in making the energy operator&#8217;s plan for a renewable superpower a reality, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said today. The draft\u00a0Integrated System Plan\u00a0released by the Australian Energy Market Operator includes 4 possible futures for the electricity grid, including a Hydrogen Superpower scenario which would see coal close &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/energy-operator-maps-path-to-renewable-superpower-future-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Energy operator maps path to renewable superpower future: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}