Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I'm pleased that September was the first month in Australian history that we got more electricity from renewable energy than from coal and October was the first month in Australian history when renewable energy supplied 50 per cent in our main energy grid. This is progress. It takes time to build up. It's taken time to build to 50 per cent and it will take time to build to 80 too, but we'll keep going.

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