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🤓 gather round for a little yarn about #australia's remarkable, accelerating energy transition. 🧵

just 3 years ago #AlanFinkel @ScienceChiefAu was tasked to review the national electricity market (NEM).

he recommended that AEMO prepare an #IntegratedSystemPlan every 2 years.
the #ISP has 5 core scenarios…

don't think of a scenario as a prediction, but rather a set of constraints/assumptions and the cheapest path found to supply power within those constraints.

let's talk about the 'step change' scenario.
'step change' is the closest to being compliant with the paris agreement — ie. a half-decent start if we want to keep the great barrier reef, not destroy civilisation etc.

it gets us to 96% renewables in 2042.

(the central 'business as usual' scenario is a few years slower.)
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a short, true story about @alan_john_moran (18 years at @TheIPA) who was offered $100k to prove the accuracy of his work for @MRobertsQLD — but, after much bluster, shied from the challenge. 1/17
in july, @alan_john_moran wrote a report for ex-senator @MRobertsQLD in response to the #finkel report.
39 pages of “scholarship” such as this: 2/17
moran’s report, largely a rehash of his blog, was riddled with errors.
the report was so bad that i prepared this brief critique:
3/17
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