Remember when ‘they’re going to ban your gas stove’ was another ‘right-wing nut-job conspiracy theory’? We all know how that one goes…
Victoria will ban gas connections in new homes from next year, the state government has announced.
The government said from January 1, 2024, planning permits for new homes and residential subdivisions, including public and social housing, will only connect to all-electric networks.
All new public buildings, such as schools, hospitals, police stations and government-owned buildings, that are yet to reach a design stage must also be all-electric, effective immediately.
They were only just getting started.
Gas hot water systems will be phased out of all Victorian homes as part of the state government’s plan to wean households off gas and prioritise dwindling supplies for industry.
There’s only one reason Victoria has ‘dwindling supplies’: the ideological derangement of its government. While Victoria is the most gas-intensive state in Australia, with about 80 per cent of homes connected to gas, the government is determined to ban it altogether. To that end, the state government has banned ‘unconventional’ gas, coal seam gas and fracking. Only the discovery of new gas deposits in existing fields has stopped the state running completely out of gas.
The only concession to sanity the government has made is reversing a plan to ban gas cooking in homes.
However, the government has explicitly said there will be no changes to gas cooking or heating for owner-occupiers, following concerns that the Labor government intended to ban all gas appliances.
From 2027, all newly built homes will be permitted to have only electric appliances.
The government said from March 1, 2027, gas hot water systems at “the end of [their] life” will need to be replaced with electric alternatives.
Which will be great when the electricity fails because their Climate Cult government has thrown all its eggs in the ‘renewable’ basket.
The transmission giant delivering the roll-out of renewables infrastructure has advocated for authorities to accelerate the development of gas plants and retain a buffer of coal after warning the power grid has been “stripped thin” of supply.
Australia’s largest electricity transmission company, Transgrid, pointed to volatile conditions in Victoria in the last week where a cold winter snap and energy shortages spanning fossil fuels through to renewables led to massive price spikes and security unease.
Transgrid chief executive Brett Redman, a former boss of AGL Energy, said it was time to prioritise putting “more buffer” back into the system.
That sounds an awful lot like an admission that ‘renewables’ just don’t cut it when it comes to running a reliable grid.
We already know that renewables drive up electricity prices:
We also know that renewables destabilise grids. Often disastrously.
Remind me why we’re cutting our energy throats, again?
