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We're a basket case down here. The lack of certainty surrounding energy policy means there's much less appetite for investment in this area than there should be.

Don't get me wrong, stuff is happening[1], but not at the rate it should be in a country with the properties you've mentioned.

[1] - http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/australia-s-largest-so...

Australia's energy is so expensive -- despite most of it coming from coal -- that going off-grid with wind and solar and some batteries is disturbingly cost-effective.

Together with the Netherlands. We don't even show as a data point on this map, but it's bad. Lots of NIMBY here with wind energy, new government has just started talking about shutting down a few coal plants, we are far behind our promises.

When you travel from The Netherlands to Germany, the sure way to recognise the border is all the wind mills.

FWIW here's a Wikipedia entry on the Dutch situation [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Nether...

I suspect lobbying to be an element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_Australia