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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Ha, Associate, Grattan Institute Shutterstock The international climate summit in Glasgow aimed to “consign coal power to history”. But while some major coal-consuming countries have agreed to phase out the fossil fuel in the 2030s, Australia is not one of them. Under its recently released plan to reach net-zero emissions by

The new inconvenient truth of the net zero transition is that keeping electricity reliable and affordable requires continued investment in coal and gas generation.

The concession from the CEO supports Energy Security Board chairman Kerry Schott’s expectation that coal power will be gone from Australia by the mid-2030s.

Energy Security Board chairman Kerry Schott has predicted coal-fired power will disappear from the National Electricity Market by the mid-2030s, if not earlier.

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor has rejected the Business Council ’s call for the Morrison government to tighten up its so-called safeguard mechanism to force big polluters to change  behaviour.