Power grid urgently needs gas-fired help

Andrew Marshall
Updated April 11 2017 - 2:51pm, first published April 3 2017 - 6:00am
Gas-fired generation sustains consistent power supplies nationally, giving the electricity grid flexibly to respond to ups and downs in demand and intermittent renewable generation capacity from solar and wind sources.
Gas-fired generation sustains consistent power supplies nationally, giving the electricity grid flexibly to respond to ups and downs in demand and intermittent renewable generation capacity from solar and wind sources.

Gas helps generate a fifth of Australia’s electricity, but it should be firing up much more generation capacity to help replace ageing coal-fueled power stations say energy distributors.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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