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(Events) should also dispel worries that a change in local government earlier this year might have affected the appetite for energy storage investments. In March elections, the Australian Labor Party was thrown out after 16 years in power.
It was replaced by the center-right Liberal Party of Australia, which under former Prime Minister Tony Abbott took a downbeat stance on renewables.
However, in an interview published in
RenewEconomy in May, South Australian energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan pledged to continue supporting the state’s move toward green energy.
“We are going to take the very best of what the former government had to offer in this space, we’re going to reject the mistakes that they made, and improve on what they had to offer,” he said.