Queensland's Energy Roadmap: A Step Forward
Queensland’s Energy Roadmap is more likely to be first steps than a completed journey.
The Crisafulli government’s roadmap is a welcome correction — more reliable and less reckless than Labor’s plan - but electricity won’t be getting any cheaper.
Even $50 will make a difference.
Queensland’s Energy Roadmap departs radically from the previous government’s strategy by basing itself around engineering rather than ideology and leaving emissions to sort themselves out as coal-fired power stations are eventually closed.
Energy strategists refer to the energy trilemma which is the mostly unattainable goal of simultaneously making electricity affordable, reliable and zero emissions.
Author's summary: Queensland's Energy Roadmap is a step towards reliability.