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Wind and solar deal killer blow to fossil fuels

Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast

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The Transition to a CleanElectrified Economy

The transition that we're going through is moving towards a kind of clean electrified economy. So you've got clean power not just to phase out coal power and gas power within the electricity grid but also to replace the oil that you use for cars and the gas thatyou use for heating. As you go through that transition, you need to be building that wind and solar for a couple of decades until you hit your 2040-2050 total net zero target for your economy. That's still kind of even for countries like Australia that are pretty fast for their transition already. You've still got aouple of decades of very fast growth of wind and solar going through that.

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