new better technology requires new better infrastructure to work at maximum efficiency. shock horror!
but nah, lets keep using an inefficient system which was designed made for technology which is decades if not over 100 years old, and is so poorly maintained that it literally falls over and starts bushfires. We all know that technology was at its peak many decades ago. Thats why we are all driving cars from the 1950s.
So why were the solar farms built there? If I had have invested I have the promoters guts for garters.
When this thread was started*/claims over cheaper, I conclude these costs were not costed in, yes/no:
* Apr 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...0-renewable-energy-would-save-australia-money
Unfortunately there's a catch - moving to renewables won't earn trillions for multinational fossil fuel companies or line the pockets of the Australian politicians in their possession.
So its business as usual, back to pretending climate change isn't real because there's too much money to be made polluting the atmosphere at the expense of our childrens' future.
Shows the folly of accepting modelling over the hard yards of professional due diligence.