State pushes for greater integration of Australia’s electricity network – but Josh Frydenberg says the idea will have to wait
The South Australian government expects a special meeting of energy ministers scheduled for Friday to examine the factors behind last week’s power blackouts in the state will also canvas whether there should be a national “emissions intensity” trading scheme for the electricity sector.
South Australia has been pushing for the adoption of a national scheme that would work as a form of emissions trading for the electricity sector. Generators would be penalised for polluting above an emissions-intensity baseline, to help drive an orderly transition to low-emissions energy sources.
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It didn’t matter how power was generated, this was a failure of the transmission systems
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