Could this tiny town in the Northern Territory hold the key to Australia's energy future?

"There's a lot of talk around what we need to be doing to decarbonise the power system in Australia," said Geoff Hobley, the general manager of remote energy for EDL, which operates the Jabiru Power plant.The complexities of generating higher rates of renewables become more difficult to navigate the bigger the power grid, as all incoming sources of energy need to be operating on the same frequency.

And they said reliance on coal and gas needs to end immediately to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Energy expert Bruce Mountain from the Victoria Energy Policy Centre predicts micro grids will play a "valuable role in electricity supply particularly in isolated markets", and diluted issues around the use of diesel when used in small amounts.

But Josh Birmingham from SMA Australia, a solar energy equipment supplier, says the emerging "grid forming" technologies at Jabiru could be a game changer.

No we could not run Australia on solar, diesel and batteries so this tiny remote town is not a practical model for cities.

They mine uranium. So yes.

So long as they do things smarter than clearing trees etc. Put the solar panels on buildings like vertical farms etc or shopping centres or something else the communities need or have already. But above all, be sustainable and stop-the-growth-at-all-costs ideologies. Auspol

Absolutely - it's a start. Solar farms with minimum use of backup fossil fuels for the time being...Get the ball rolling.👍

Are they destroying Kakadu?

Are they building a nuclear plant?

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