Renewables produced more energy than brown coal and gas over summer
The Guardian | March 28, 2019
Growth in wind and solar energy over the past two years has almost entirely replaced the lost output from the Hazelwood power station during summer, a new report says. The latest Green Energy Markets report says renewable energy produced 128% more megawatt hours of electricity than gas and 23% more than brown coal over the 2018-19 summer in the national electricity market states. It also shows that output from solar energy alone exceeded that from brown coal and gas when averaged across the 9am-5pm period. Demand for electricity hits a peak between 11.30am and 5.30pm in the summer months.