Slightly older article (August) but still relevant. It's disgusting that things have been allowed to get to this point.

But how good is coal? /s

And it's so frustrating that household solar is being pointed to to help out the grid when the opportunity to have household solar panels has largely been limited to homeowners. A fair number of Australians are renters and a fair few in very energy inefficient buildings.

So you know. If the grid keeps failing or browning out during high demand (ie everyone running aircon) we and other vulnerable groups are going to have a bad time.

I hope they DO make clean energy more accessible and affordable because the bills for even low usage are hefty and I missed the last power saving bonus. I'm going to have a read through this regarding Rewiring The Nation, wondering if it's any good... There's also the Capacity Investment Scheme mentioned, I'm going to have to sift through to see what all that means for ordinary people.

At one point European energy costs went into the negatives due to renewables. (I think it was Finland due to an abundance from hydroelectric). So that could have already been us... But thanks to our poor leadership we're having to desperately try and play catchup in a crisis.