{"id":758628,"date":"2026-06-25T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758628\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:50:13","slug":"another-wind-drought-exposes-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758628\/","title":{"rendered":"Another wind drought exposes energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s electricity grid must be built to handle the worst moments, not averages.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Australia\u2019s National Energy Market (NEM) has experienced a prolonged wind drought, which, alongside low solar generation due to winter, has made the grid overly reliant on coal and gas.<\/p>\n<p>As I began writing this article at 9.50 am on Wednesday, only 26% of the NEM\u2019s power generation is coming from solar (21%) and wind (5%), while coal (54%) and gas (9%) are carrying the load:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NEM-power-mix-24.06.2026.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"243\" alt=\"NEM current\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s electricity grid must be built to handle the worst moments, not averages. This week, Australia\u2019s National Energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-758628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758628","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=758628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}