Australia is addicted to coal, both in consumption and export. It's been a politically hot debate here for 20 years, with mining and resource companies having a heavy hand in our politics.

With Australia's commitment to the Paris Agreement and rapidly dropping prices of wind & solar generation (LCOE now less than coal derived electricity generation [0]), I hope this will change very soon! Also worth noting that China, where Australia sends a lot of coal, has committed to becoming carbon neutral before 2060 [1].

0: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/wind-and...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/22/china-pl...

I guess the combination of having a lot of coal and widespread climate denialism (the current prime minister basically rejects climate science) is a bad combination.

The site is missing a large amount of Australian renewable generation.

Compare it to http://nemlog.com.au/gen/co2e/ for example.

If I understand the visualization correctly, it is real time. There is a lot of solar PV (rooftops especially) in Oz. Wait for the sun to come up and look again...