REES GOVT’S $16.5 BN ELECTRICITY BILL SQUANDERED ON COAL POWER
The $16.5 billion upgrade of NSW’s electricity wires and poles
approved today by the Australian Energy Regulator will lock the state
into a coal-powered future. The opportunity to take the state forward
to smart grids, intelligent load control and embedded clean energy
sources has been lost. The Rees government has got away with building
a 1960s electricity superhighway for the coal-fired generators to
pump their greenhouse-polluting energy into NSW homes