Anthony Albanese (pictured) and the Labor Party have taken on board the need for storage in making clean energy dispatchable, Dr Bruce Mountain said. Image: Anthony Albanese’s office via Twitter.
Australian energy ministers’ recent agreement to launch tenders for a mix of renewable energy and energy storage is a “major breakthrough in federal policy”.
That’s the view of Dr Bruce Mountain, energy economics expert at the Victorian Energy Policy Centre (VEPC), who warmly welcomed the high-level agreement and its promise to exclude coal and gas from procurement processes.
As reported by Energy-Storage.news earlier this month as Federal energy minister Chris Bowen and energy ministers from Australian states and territories met and decided in principle to launch a scheme to tender for dispatchable renewable energy on a competitive basis.
It is also expected…