Boosting supplies of cheaper renewable energy is crucial to the government’s election promise to cut power bills by $275 by 2025.Credit:Joe Armao
Littleproud told this masthead that governments must consider the use of nuclear power with small modular reactors to replace existing coal plants to reduce the need for new transmission lines.
Former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel said small modular reactors,which are not in commercial use anywhere,would not be ready for deployment until at least 2040.