Billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk is celebrating a massive Australian milestone. Picture: Getty
Billionaire Elon Musk has highlighted a major Australian home milestone.
Donald Trump’s new razor gang chief has taken to social media to point out a new era in energy production for Australia.
Musk took to his own platform X to repost a tweet from physics engineer Alex Tourville about Australia’s solar energy generation.
The post, which feature a picture of tradies on a house roof installing solar panels read: “NEWS: Rooftop solar delivers milestone of 80.5% share of electricity generation in Western Australia
“Yesterday at 1:30 PM, distributed solar PV accounted for 2.12 gigawatts of output, with natural gas and coal both reduced to shares of 8.6% and 8.3% respectively.
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X repost from Elon Musk. Picture: Twitter
Musk’s repost which has attracted over 50 million views was accompanied with his comment: “Solar power will be the vast majority of power generation in the future”.
His ascension to the Trump presidency team as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency has anointed Musk as one of the most powerful and influential men in the world, along as being one of the richest.
Given Musk’s entrepreneurial nous and his incredible success in turning Tesla into one of the biggest carmakers in the world, his regeneration of the US’s space race via SpaceX and how he has turned social media platform X around, there appears to be every reason to believe Musk when it comes to energy production via solar.
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Musk is President-elect Donald Trump’s new head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Picture: Getty
According to the Australian Government’s Australian Energy Regulator’s latest paper State of the Energy Market 2024 released last week: “In 2023–24, output from rooftop solar increased by 16% compared with the previous year, and total output has more than tripled since 2017–18.
In 2023–24 it accounted for over 11% of total generation, up from 10% the previous year.”
The paper also reports: “Australia is the largest per capita user of rooftop solar in the world.
“Queensland and NSW have the most installed capacity, but South Australia has the highest relative rooftop solar capacity, making up 40% of its total capacity.”
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“Australia is the largest per capita user of rooftop solar in the world.
A media release from the Climate Council on the back of that Energy Market 2024 report claimed: “Rooftop solar in particular now exceeds 20 gigawatts in the National Electricity Market – making up a quarter of the maximum electricity which can be produced in the grid. New wind, solar and storage installations are also expected to triple in the next 12 months compared to 2023-2024”.
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