Albanese and Bowen ‘know very little' about the Australian energy sector
Energy market analyst Saul Kavonic discusses the need for Australia to have a consistent power supply, saying Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 'know very little' about our energy sector.
'I think it's quite clear that most of the mob in parliament, in particular our energy minister and arguably our prime minister at this stage, know very little about our energy sector,' Mr Kavonic said.
'I think a very good example to look at is what happened in Germany here, where you actually had effectively an equivalent of a Greens minority government there, an actual minister was part of the Greens party, and the face of the shut off of Russian gas after the Ukraine war.
'They had a kind of internal schism and decided the Green party still couldn't bring themselves to actually support nuclear, so they supported more coal-fired generation.
'If you want to have a strong again, blue-collar workforce, manufacturing base of all the economic and national security benefits that provides, having strong, stable power supply with very low marginal cost is a critical component of that.'
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