
Australia’s rise as an electro-state
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
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Why Aren't They Announcing Their Plans?
I don't think energy Australia or origin or age ill have hardly announced a project in years and years and years. And that's not because there wasn't any transmission. It's just because they haven't seen it as being in their financial interest one way or another. The whole idea was to provide profit motives for developers to develop things. If you're saying that they should develop irrespective of financial opportunity, that's really calling it to question the whole logic of the national electricity market. Yeah. Well, we'll move it on,. but I would argue they protected their existing cash flows and because they own the retail from coal generation and they just haven't seen any incentive in closing those any early
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