Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume says AEMO's new report flagging the potential for future eastern state blackouts is a “dire warning” to Australians as the energy investors needed to fill the gaps have been 'turned away' by Labor’s price caps. 'Investors should be more frightened about the fact your government has actually turned them away,” Ms Hume said. 'All these things that are piling on into the gas market that are essentially turning investors away. “If you rush headlong into an ideal tsunami of renewables, well of course the grid is going to be unstable.”
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Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume says AEMO's new report flagging the potential for future eastern state blackouts is a “dire warning” to Australians as the energy investors needed to fill the gaps have been"turned away" by Labor’s price caps. "Investors should be more frightened about the fact your government has actually turned them away,” Ms Hume said.
"All these things that are piling on into the gas market that are essentially turning investors away. “If you rush headlong into an ideal tsunami of renewables, well of course the grid is going to be unstable.”
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