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Some states are doing better than others at energy (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by Grail@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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The top graph is South Australia's energy grid. The bottom is Queensland's. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

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[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But but the government is going to scrap a big pumped hydro project and replace it with lots of small ones (that haven't been budgeted for at all).

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

to be fair, its not like snowy 2.0 has been a huge success. How late and over budget is it at this point?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At this point every single infrastructure project will be over budget and late... literally all of them thanks to covids construction madness and increased cost of materials and inflation and low unemployment rate

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they didn't do a geological survey properly. The digger ran into material they werent expecting and slowed the whole thing down even further. Its not being called a white elephant for no reason. Do I believe in the project? Absolutely! But I can believe in it whilst recognizing its mismanagement.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

sorry are you referring to snowy hydro as the one getting cancelled?

op was referring to https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/lnp-scraps-pioneer-burdekin-pumped-hydro/104550864