Australia is aiming to be a renewable energy superpower – but its actions don’t necessarily match its words, writes Greg Jericho.Australia is aiming to be a renewable energy superpower – but its actions don’t necessarily match its words, writes Greg Jericho.The Australian government likes to say we can be a renewable energy superpower, but it ignores that we already are an energy power that fails utterly to use that power for good.
Bowen did all he could during that podcast to turn the discussion away from reductions of fossil fuels, or vital issues such as not opening new coal or gas mines, and talk instead about Australia becoming a “renewable energy superpower”. We argue that we need to sell them LNG now so that as this unstated point in the future they will trust us to buy our green hydrogen. This “strategy”, as Murphy rather succinctly noted to the climate change minister, was essentially saying “We need to sell the gas to end the gas”.noted that “measures to stimulate low-emission hydrogen use have only recently started to attract policy attention and are still not sufficient to meet climate ambitions”.