So is there a Plan B, if we don’t make it to 82% renewable generated power by 2032?

Chris Bowen:

It’s important that we achieve this, Sarah, as I said, not just for emissions reduction, as vital as that obviously is. But let me just make the point about reliability. I mean the biggest threat to reliability in our electricity system today is coal fired power.

Today there are, as we speak today, there are three separate coal fired power stations out, not working – not planned outage – just broken down.

This is a daily occurrence and that will happen more and more as they get older. This is not some sort of woke agenda as the Opposition would have you believe, and the Opposition is acting unbelievably recklessly here. This is vital investment for energy reliability for the future.

Again, that renewable energy backed by storage as we’re doing with the big batteries and the so far, four weeks into the programme, 16,304 home batteries all this is a very important investment in a more reliable energy grid as well as a much lower emissions one.