For about 30 minutes on Friday, Australia got “a glimpse of what a renewables-powered future might look like”, when solar power eclipsed coal as the leading source of power on the nation’s energy market in all states except Western Australia and the Northern Territory, a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said on Saturday.
Around lunchtime on Friday, solar accounted for about 40% of power on the national market, over coal at 38%, according to the report, which said that this was the first time this had occurred under under ‘normal’ conditions – not a shortage of coal-fired power – and that most of the power came from rooftop solar panels than large-scale solar farms.
Read the full report. The ABC.
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