17 October

Great article showing the brutally fast changes underway. This was Australia’s newest coal-fired plant, and remember many were calling for us to build even more. It’s gone belly up, entirely for economic reasons. None of this is tough maths, if you have high coal prices, you also have high coal-fired electricity prices. And coal plants are hopelessly inflexible, you can’t adjust them to shifts in demand. 60% of what’s left of coal-fired electricity in Australia will be gone by 2030. That’s 7 years.