{"id":446542,"date":"2026-01-30T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:54:16","slug":"australia-needs-stable-baseload-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446542\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia needs stable baseload power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s energy demand will soar over the coming decades due to a combination of rapid population growth, the mass build-out of data centres, and the likely need for a fleet of energy-hungry water desalination plants.<\/p>\n<p>The latest projections from the Centre for Population, released this month, show that the nation\u2019s population will balloon by 13.4 million (nearly 50%) by 2065\u201366, equivalent to adding another Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth to the current population.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Australian-population-projection-1.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"146\" alt=\"Population projections\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As a result, household demand for energy (let alone extra industrial and commercial demand) will also increase by around 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s energy demand will soar over the coming decades due to a combination of rapid population growth, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-446542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446542","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=446542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}