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- Brown coal is so cheap AEMO forgets to mention it Fri, 10 Mar 23, 7:47amBy Jo Nova Many Australians face a 20% rise in their electricity bill this coming winter, so it seems odd that the AEMO* forgot to put the price of the cheapest source of electricity in their last quarterly report...
- Australian renewables integration: Part 1 Sat, 4 Mar 23, 1:00pmForty years ago, Australia had an electricity system delivering cheap, reliable power. That is no longer the case.
- Aussie Climate Minister Rejects Claims the Grid will Fail when the Generators are Decommissioned Wed, 22 Feb 23, 5:00amAussie Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is confident the grid will remain reliable as dispatchable generators are decommissioned, despite official reports which warn there are big problems.
- Wind, Solar, and Household Electricity Prices Tue, 21 Feb 23, 1:00pmFrom all of the above, ie. from looking at the full picture, wind and solar demonstrably drive up the cost of electricity.
- Blistering electricity prices: It was the quarter the whole market broke and Australia got a $12.1b price signal Sat, 30 Jul 22, 6:13amLooks like a system wide failure For years the average wholesale price was somewhere between $30 and $60 per megawatt hour for electricity on the Australian national grid...
- Blistering electricity prices: It was the quarter the whole market broke and Australia spent $12.7b Sat, 30 Jul 22, 6:13amLooks like a system wide failure For years the average wholesale price was somewhere between $30 and $60 per megawatt hour for electricity on the Australian national grid...
- Just throw money: AEMO demands $12b gift to build 10,000 km of new transmission lines for Renewables Fri, 1 Jul 22, 5:50amMarcus Wong Wongm Effectively — the AEMO (the Australian Energy Market Operator) is the taxpayer funded advertising agency for the Renewables Industry...
- Welcome to a weather dependent nation — whether you can use your dishwasher depends on the wind Fri, 17 Jun 22, 5:49amRenewable Crash Test Dummy: Friday edition For energy-nerds following the Australian experiment, today is a big day. On the up-side, three coal turbines have rebooted adding another 1200MW to the grid. On the down-side, the...
- Australian grid teeters on edge of blackouts tonight Mon, 13 Jun 22, 6:50pmThe Queensland grid is in crisis — the forecast price for nearly the entire next 24 hours is 15,000 per megawatt hour.
- Electricity Hunger Games downunder — potential sighting of four hour price bonfire Thu, 2 Jun 22, 4:14amIt’s a grid on the edge Like a meteor-shower, the dinner time performance today may or may not be a spectator event. The fun may start at 4:30pm in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania — a full quinfecta at $15,000...
- Australian wholesale electricity prices have doubled in the last year (and it’s because we don’t have enough coal power) Sat, 30 Apr 22, 6:59amLuckily for Energy Oligarchs, Australian electricity prices have bounced right back to pre-pandemic insanity. Wholesale rates are romping around $170 dollars a megawatt hour in April across the whole national grid…
- What would you say to Daniel Westerman, head of Australia’s AEMO? Sat, 27 Nov 21, 12:36pmGuest post by Rafe Champion Daniel Westerman, AEMO In May this year Daniel Westerman replaced Audrey Zibelman as the CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator...
- Australian energy security on the brink Fri, 1 May 20, 11:00amRafe Champion, Independent Scholar, Sydney The Australian electric power supply is on the edge of a cliff because one more substantial coal-fired power station is scheduled to close in 2023...
- Australian grid has major near miss: SA Islanded for two weeks Wed, 12 Feb 20, 4:41amHere in Renewables-World downunder, most people don’t know the grid has barely scraped through the last two weeks. We almost lost an Aluminium smelter, came close to a statewide blackout and South Australia is (possibly)...
- Basslink cable out again, costing Victorians more as prices rise Wed, 28 Aug 19, 4:12pmThe Basslink cable has gone down again, and is expected to be out of action til mid-October. Luckily for Tasmania, the dams are at 45% full. However in Victoria, which sits on one of the largest brown coal reserves in the...