by AAP | September 7, 2022 09:34 | News
Australia will change at “lightning speed” to become a superpower exporting renewable energy to the world.
Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen told a forum in Canberra the plan to have an energy grid powered by 82 per cent renewables is a big step up, but is just the beginning.
“But then we’ve got to be moving on to 200, 300, 400 per cent in exports,” he said on Wednesday.
The Sun Cable project to export energy to Singapore from a massive solar farm in central Australia and the development of green hydrogen have a long way to go but the potential is there, he said.
“It won’t be long before we’re walking through hydrogen plants and showing the jobs of the future, physically touching them.”
He told the Better Futures Forum it’s “been a long time…