It reminds me of the Voyager probes that left the solar system half a dozen times, each time taking a different definition of what marks the edge of the solar system.
Anyways, we are now getting to sensible metrics, which is good.
Moving away from fossil fuels is a big task, these are the first signs that things are happening.
And it is not just because of the negativity bias. Things that work as they should don't make the news. I mean, take Ukraine and Poland, both European countries of a similar scale, one is at war, the other is doing well, guess the one that makes the news.
I'd say the only consistent supplier of good news is science and technology (with maybe a 50/50 ratio of good to bad), and sports (for the winning team). Geopolitics is almost exclusively bad news, economics is mostly bad, the good news are often agreements that conclude a stream of bad news, such as wars and economic crisis, and then we stop talking about the thing, because it now works as it should. And then, there are crimes and disasters, which are obviously bad.
If you have a good source for something that says otherwise, I'd be genuinely interested to see it. Not that I would probably change my opinion on renewables, since I personally think cutting pollution of the air I breathe is worth paying a little extra for, but I like to be informed nonetheless.
Renewables aren’t dispatchable, so the two aren’t comparable.
Any increase in renewables in a grid, beyond a small and insignificant fraction, requires a significant increase in dispatchable electricity generation to match.
Coal can load follow to a limited extent because steam can be vented and base load is very predictable.
Gas turbines are very dispatchable, and combined cycle gas turbine can load follow well.
The argument against renewables being cheaper than the other options is that there isn’t any example anywhere to date where renewables have gone and electricity has become cheaper.
It’s a fact that anywhere renewables have penetrated the market to any extent worth mentioning, electricity has become much more expensive.
Countries that haven’t conducted the renewables experiment haven’t experienced anywhere near the same rise in electricity prices.
Wind and solar, especially in a place like Australia which is extremely geographically dispersed, requires massive infrastructure investment to get the electricity to the grid.
Complete with the destruction of vast swaths of land through national parks, parks environmental types would have previously nailed themselves to trees to defend.