That’s what the “Future made in Australia” plan is! It’s a plan to turn Australia into the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy and renewable tech (Solar panals, wind turbines, batteries and more)
Comment on European countries and Australia top the world for per capita solar and wind generation capacity
Salvo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
We need to have local manufacturing of Solar Panels and Home Batteries.
Not do economic or political reasons; purely for environmental reasons.
The problem is that environmentalism is disrupting manufacturing.
mtpender@aussie.zone 10 months ago
r_deckard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We used to. BPSolar used to manufacture panels in Sydney - I’ve got some of them on my roof. But they closed the plant and moved manufacturing to…
anyone? Moved to…
anyone?
China. Yes, and some of the local ex-BP middle management tried to buy the plant and get manufacturing happening again. Last I heard, they were unsuccessful, but I don’t recall why.
Salvo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Probably the same reason why the Ammonia Plant in Brisbane closed down (and had to reopen to prevent transport industry from crashing due to the AdBlue shortage).