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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
But the question is simple
I get getting rid of the coal plants, that's inevitable. But they haven't even started to really pull in bids on constructing new sources of energy, frankly they don't even really have a plan in place that I've seen in terms of what alternatives they're going to use.
So these replacements are at best years away.
Yet they're jacking up the costs now when there's no real alternatives.
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Most operators are waiting for electricity prices to recover before they go ahead with projects which will start happening once the first remaining group of coal plants start retiring. They'll also benefit from the replacement of the SGER with the Carbon levy.