What’s that you say? Australia has ‘clean coal power stations’? Well, it depends how you define ‘clean coal’. Most power sector observers eschew the phrase because frankly it’s misleading. No technology exists that allows coal to be used without adding carbon pollution to the atmosphere — however the Australian Government and the Australian coal sector use the term ‘clean coal’ to refer to two technologies:

The future of Australia’s energy storage market depends on urgent market reform – not subsidies – says the Clean Energy Council, in a new report that joins the growing chorus for Australia’s policy makers to finally respond to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Syrian refugees will be able to light their homes, charge their phones and chill their food by solar power as Jordan's Azraq camp became the world's first refugee camp to be powered by renewable energy, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday.

It is not hard to understand why the South Australian government does not want to take any chances over electricity supply. They feel badly let down – in the middle of a storm and in the middle of a heatwave – by the Australian Energy Market Operator, screwed by the profit motive of fossil fuel generators, and betrayed by the federal government.