ACT goes 100% renewable

[DiscoMick]

First Australian city to go 100% renewable, which proves it can be done.

Canberra will be first Australian city to run on 100 per cent renewable energy from October - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[cripesamighty]

It’s easy enough for ACT. With its high proportion of politicians, there is more than enough hot air for wind turbines and since they think the sun shines out of their butts, solar is covered too. Or am I just getting jaded with all the rubbish flooding the airwaves and interwebs for tomorrow’s Federal election... 😁

PS. Nice work by the ACT if they have solved the intermittency problems with renewables.

[101RRS]

With its high proportion of politicians,

Absolute myth - google how long the blowhards are actually here each year - sorry but they are all out with the great unwashed - where you live .

The reality is of course that we get the majority of of electricity from the grid in NSW - our own energy generating capacity resides with a few solar panels at Hume and some down at Royalla - not enough to generate all that much.

Like all plans where you pay extra for renewable energy, the actual energy you get is a mix, some renewable, some hydro and some coal burning, you just pay more which helps to bring more renewables on line - interestingly despite this our energy prices are not too bad when compared to other states.

That SA renewable power does not come direct to the ACT - there is no direct link - it just goes into the grid where we get the power (a mix).

I am afraid it is all smoke and mirrors.

[DiscoMick]

It means they will be putting into the grid as much as they draw from it.

[p38arover]

Impossible - unless there are a lot of blackouts.

[DiscoMick]

That's what the story says.

[101RRS]

They just launched a hydrogen fuel bowser - trouble is it is just a cardboard cutout

[Slunnie]

Good on the ACT, at least they're getting there and heading well in the right direction!

[biggin]

It’s all words and nothing else, just more posturing. If they’re 100% renewable then take them off the grid.

[Slunnie]

It’s all words and nothing else, just more posturing. If they’re 100% renewable then take them off the grid.

You really didn’t read the article did you.