The former CEO of Australia’s largest renewable energy provider has taken issue with the Albanese Labor government’s green energy policies.
Paul Broad, former head of the government-owned Snowy Hydro company, said the government would fail to meet its target of producing 82 percent of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2030.
The comments came a day after it was revealed that the Snowy 2.0 expansion would be over-budget and further delayed and a week after the Liddell coal-fired power plant was shut down, depriving New South Wales of 10 percent of its power.
Broad told 2GB Radio on May 4 that the “notion that you’re going to have 80 percent renewables in our system by 2030” was not viable….