Energy Minister Penny Sharpe insists the state's reluctance to move on from coal power and residential gas does not mean it will fall behind in the race to net zero.
Kate Burgess
Climate, energy and resources correspondent
Kate has spent two decades as a financial journalist in print and online media in Australia, the UK and Asia. Her reporting career began on property trade titles, then BRW and the Australian Financial Review, followed by a stint in London with ICIS and as the founding Asia-Pacific editor of the Inframation news service, owned by Mergermarket.
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