Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by logifail 1053 days ago
> They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, ~7GW greater than entire continent coal generation (which will add to current renewables capacity) [1] [2]. Batteries are scaling up to consume grid services revenue and drive out thermal generation [3].

Yet they are still digging coal out of the ground - for export. Australia exported USD 75 billion worth of coal in 2022.