While the Coalition and Murdoch media ramp up their campaign against renewable energy, renewables set yet another record – more than half the grid for the first time. What’s the scam?

The scam is the Coalition campaign to blame renewables for rising electricity prices has just gone into overdrive with Murdoch mastheads splashing today on energy bill scaremongering.

Murdoch Coalition scare campaign

The lastest data from the National Electricity Market however shows that renewable energy now accounts, for the first time in November, for more than half of Australia’s grid. That’s wind and solar, whose wholesale prices, also according to the latest data, are far below fossil fuel prices. Rooftop solar just $9.28 per megawatt hour.

Source: Open Electricity

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