They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, roughly equal to total continent fossil generation (which will add to current renewables capacity).

https://www.energymagazine.com.au/aemo-quarterly-energy-repo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla... | https://archive.is/egMXl

> They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, ~7GW greater than entire continent coal generation (which will add to current renewables capacity) [1] [2]. Batteries are scaling up to consume grid services revenue and drive out thermal generation [3].

Yet they are still digging coal out of the ground - for export. Australia exported USD 75 billion worth of coal in 2022.

We should try to keep it that way.

If they discovered a new source of coal, as large, clean and easy to mine as their best ever existing coal seams, they'd be financially better off putting solar PV over the top of it than mining the coal seam. So that problem should solve itself if they let the market do its thing and don't tilt it to help out coal mine owners.