This link was sent to me by a reader.  David Limbrick MP on X/Twitter: “There’s been some discussion recently around the validity of the “cheap renewables” claims made by proponents referring to the CSIRO Gencost report, due to the infrastructure cost to 2030. Anyone that’s installed solar and batteries can understand this – storage isn’t cheap.”

It is an address from an Australian politician discussing the real cost of solar and wind if interconnection and battery storage costs are figured in.  While some newer battery technologies are on the horizon with longer shelf lives than Lithium Ion batteries, their costs are just as high which will still require trillions of dollars of storage to support the system.

It echoes what I have been saying for four years now.  Renewables can help to offset fossil fuel emissions but they cannot be the backbone of the system for reasons of both reliability and cost.

Rich