{"id":457425,"date":"2026-02-04T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:13:10","slug":"with-renewables-over-50-is-the-energy-transition-succeeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457425\/","title":{"rendered":"With renewables over 50%, is the energy transition\u2026 succeeding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/anatomy-of-a-heatwave-how-a-cyclone-humid-air-and-atmospheric-waves-drove-brutal-heat-in-the-southeast-274511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaker<\/a>\u00a0had hit the east coast, Australia\u2019s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.vic.gov.au\/about-energy\/safety\/power-outages#:%7E:text=Between%207%2D10%20January%2C%20extreme,now%20having%20their%20power%20restored.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some outages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Australia\u2019s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/newsroom\/media-release\/renewables-supply-more-than-half-of-quarterly-energy-supply\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contributed more than 50%<\/a>\u00a0of supplied electricity for the first time, while wholesale power prices were more than 40% lower than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s long, complicated and difficult energy transition is finally working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week\u2019s\u00a0record-breaker\u00a0had hit the east coast, Australia\u2019s power supply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,40363,116456,2572,75,192707,28485,8146,128,6831,9726,3814],"class_list":["post-457425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-battery-storage","tag-coal-fired-power","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-gas-fired-power","tag-power-prices","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-solar-power","tag-the-conversation","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457425","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=457425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}