Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard

Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard

Executive Summary The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail. The idea that our previous accomplishments should encourage further persistence depends on the presupposition that the transition to renewables benefits from gathering momentum. Advocates point to the increase in wind and solar from 1.5% of our electricity share …