30 November

Even NSW, which was a laggard, now on most days provides most of its electricity from renewables. Those red arrows show the tiny remnant of coal used during the day, quickly collapsing. Overnight you can see what impact Barnaby Joyce’s army of mental midgets have done to hamper wind power (green), which is actually stronger at night. That and batteries (dark blue) will fill those gaps, batteries coming online super fast now. People forget too that business and consumers only consume electricity overnight in any quantity because they were made to over decades, with off-peak power. Mostly we’re asleep. The off-peak time has now shifted to middle of the day, and that night time use should fall away significantly as behaviours change. We don’t need 24-hour continuous full power, only coal plants made us think that because you can’t turn them off.