Labor picks a fresh fight over energy policy
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Labor has vowed to torpedo changes that have enabled two clean energy bodies to invest beyond wind and solar and fund other low-emission technologies such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen production and green steel.
The move, which involves moving motions in both houses of Parliament seeking to overturn government regulations, has already been proposed by the Greens and threatens to spark a fresh energy policy row for Labor, both internally and externally.
Chris Bowen has opened a second front in the energy wars with the government- and with some of his own colleagues.
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Published: 18 May 2021, 06:22
By:
Andy Colthorpe
Artist rendering of the Victorian Big Battery (VBB), a 300MW / 450MWh project which will enable greater interconnection capacity with New South Wales. Image: Neoen.
Over a gigawatt of battery storage has been proposed in a plan to enable the wider rollout of renewables by Powercor, owner and operator of an electricity distribution network serving more than 800,000 customers in the Australian state of Victoria.
The group’s network includes over half a million electricity poles and nearly 90,000km of power lines. In the Integrated System Plan (ISP) published by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) which models scenarios for achieving long-term reliability, economic and decarbonisation goals, six large Renewable Energy Zones (REZs) were identified for Victoria. Four of those would be inside Powercor’s service territory.