My work is in renewable energy, and I feel like this is a least-worst politically-achievable result. I say this as someone who watched in dismay as the Australian Greens scuttled a not-great emissions plan, and unintentionally gave enormous political momentum to the coal-loving conservatives and set Australia’s energy transition back a decade.
Another nice thing about gas is it tends to be a lot of smaller plants rather than one big one like coal or nukes. So it’s easier to pop them off one by one with e.g. battery installations.
