New report reveals flaws in government's net zero plan
A recent report from the Centre for Independent Studies has revealed flaws in the Albanese government’s net zero plan.
Centre for Independent Studies released a report on ‘the six fundamental flaws underpinning the energy transition’ earlier this month, which challenges the claims made from energy reports that painted renewable energy as the cheapest alternative, including fossil fuels, despite any cost of carbon or other policy constraints.
New report reveals flaws in government’s net zero plan
Centre for Independent Studies, Energy Program Director Aidan Morrison joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss some of the flaws underpinning the energy transition.
“One of the flaws we’ve outlined is, I call it match fixing the energy transition, they’ve said they’ve found the cheapest and that gives you the impression they’ve contested it against a few other alternative plans,” Mr Morrison said.
“But they actually don’t have any scenario that doesn’t contemplate us meeting all the renewable energy targets, and also the carbon budgets the very strict carbon budgets that actually see the electricity grid fold to almost zero carbon by 2035, we thought it was a net zero by 2050.
“The electricity grid according to the ISP has to be down by just about 2035 so they haven’t actually presented alternatives, they’ve just pretty much said there’s one horse in the race and this is it and where going to claim it’s the cheapest because it’s the only horse we’ve put in the race.”