Two power generation companies in New South Wales, Australia are planning to set up two fossil fuel based power plants of capacity 1000 MW each. The developers do not see the state’s renewable energy potential as large enough to make any significant contribution to supply the growing power demands.
Delta Electricity and Macquarie Generation have claimed that New South Wales does not have the adequate solar or wind energy potential in order to reach the Mandatory Renewable Energy standard of 20% power from renewable sources by 2020, set by the Australian government. Therefore, they have proposed to set up two massive power plants preferably based on ‘clean coal’ technology.
According to the New South Wales government website, the state has tremendous wind energy potential with extensive power grid to support transmission.






