Queensland, with its relatively young and mostly government-owned coal fleet, has often been criticised by environmental advocates for not engaging honestly with its future in a carbon-constrained world. That all changed last Wednesday when the Queensland Government released, with great fanfare, an audacious plan to retire and repurpose all its coal plants and commit to a remarkably large government build of transmission and pumped storage, plus a host of other matters. Here we take a look at the coal retirements, pumped storage and renewable arrangements.
