{"id":386472,"date":"2026-01-02T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:32:24","slug":"why-renewable-energy-is-failing-to-deliver-cheap-secure-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386472\/","title":{"rendered":"Why renewable energy is failing to deliver cheap, secure power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is conducting a dangerous experiment, replacing reliable, dispatchable power with intermittent renewables in the name of net zero.<\/p>\n<p>After two decades of forcing low-density wind and solar into the system, electricity is neither cheap nor secure. The Australian Energy Market Commission has abandoned its promise that renewables would drive prices down. It now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/renewables-go-slow-shatters-hopes-for-lower-power-prices-20251203-p5nkgr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expects real prices to rise<\/a> 13 per cent this decade \u2013 and that is probably optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is conducting a dangerous experiment, replacing reliable, dispatchable power with intermittent renewables in the name of net&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-386472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}