What are we to make of the increasing volume and intensity of competing ‘facts’ about Australia’s green energy transition, how to achieve it and at what cost?

I mean, other than the reality that political narrative and ideology too easily trumps engineering and economic rigour in the age of Net Zero targets and mandates.

Take for instance, the brouhaha and many troubling questions surrounding the latest GenCost report, a piece of work jointly authored by the national science agency, the CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

Produced annually since 2018, GenCost is the ‘go to’ modelling and analysis of the scope and costs of building future electricity generation, storage and hydrogen production in Australia. It compares the cost to build new coal, gas, solar, onshore wind, offshore wind and batteries.

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