Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton says total reliance on renewable energy to fulfil the nation’s electricity needs is unfeasible.
His comments come as the current Energy Minister Chris Bowen calls on the private sector to bolster investment in renewables amid soaring electricity and gas costs in Australia.
Dutton told the Nine Network that the energy grid would always need coal or gas to underpin it.
“That’s the scientific reality. The talk of a battery and storage which [Prime Minister] Anthony Albanese is talking about is not a scientific reality in 2022,” he said.
“The reality is we’re dealing with these issues every day; Ukraine hasn’t just gone to war, they’ve been at war for months. There hasn’t been a problem with energy supply since Labor [came into power].”…