The South Australian government will spend $500m on energy plan, which includes building the nation’s largest battery storage and a state-owned gas-fired power plant. As it happened

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The main points of Jay Weatherill’s energy plan:

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And on the SA energy security target, South Australian energy retailers will have to get electricity from cleaner generators that produce their electricity using South Australia’s natural resources.

Retailers will be compelled to source a percentage of energy from local generators rather than from Victorian coal through the interconnector.

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Source: Guardian Climate Change