Green power not to blame

BLAMING renewable energy for failures of the reliability of Australia’s electricity supply is wrong and dangerous, a new report says.

In the past decade, more than 97 per cent of electricity outages were due to problems with the poles and wires, the Grattan Institute report has found.

Such outages therefore had nothing to do with how the energy was generated.

It also found that network costs were the largest cause of increasing residential electricity prices in NSW and Queensland.