The Minns government’s electricity network “check up” has questioned whether the agency tasked with rolling out the multibillion-dollar renewables program is up to the job.
The Minns government’s electricity network review has raised concerns about whether the agency tasked with delivering NSW’s multibillion-dollar renewable energy zones is up to the job, finding there is “significant risk” with the program in its current form.revealed on Tuesday the so-called “check-up” of the state’s energy supply has recommended Labor
While the report is complimentary of Energy Co’s work so far, it says the size of the infrastructure program needed to deliver the zones presents a “significant risk”. It comes as clean energy investors and the former NSW energy minister Matt Kean blasted the proposal to keep Eraring open beyond 2025.
Simon Corbell, the chief executive of the Clean Energy Investor Group, said delaying the closure of Eraring would create “significant downside risk for investors”.Peter Rae Kean has also been critical of the Labor government’s decision to appoint a former chief executive of the now-defunct Energy Retailers Association between 2006 and 2015, Cameron O’Reilly, to lead the review into the state’s energy supply check-up.
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