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- Renewable Hell: Electricity price spikes hit $16,000 morning and night in our two largest states Tue, 6 Aug 24, 6:23amBy Jo Nova The Crash Test Dummy Nation wins a Gold Medal in Electricity Prices And you thought last week was bad. While the single spike at $17,000 a megawatt hour in five states simultaneously was a record, just a week later...
- Wholesale Electricity prices hit $17,000 in five states in Australia –Renewable fans blame a lack of coal power (?) Fri, 2 Aug 24, 7:03amBy Jo Nova It’s a 6pm bonfire on the Australian grid Over at WattClarity on Monday when every state had prices over $3,000 per MWh simultaneously, Dan Lee noted that this was extremely rare...
- Wholesale Electricity prices hit $17,000 in every state in Australia –Renewable fans blame a lack of coal power (?) Fri, 2 Aug 24, 7:03amBy Jo Nova It’s a 6pm bonfire on the Australian grid Over at WattClarity on Monday when every state had prices over $3,000 per MWh simultaneously, Dan Lee noted that this was extremely rare...
- Electricity prices fall from ridiculous peak but it’s not due to renewables and it’s still not cheap Fri, 26 Jan 24, 5:42amBy Jo Nova This week the agitprop-media was full of contrived good news about electricity prices in Australia, associated suggestively, in the loosest, most meaningless way with the word “renewables”...
- Renewable Fail: East Coast Aussie States Are Failing or About to Fail Energy Reliability Standards Mon, 4 Sep 23, 7:00amA just published Australian Energy Market Operator report highlights the urgent "opportunity" for the provision of reliable electricity to Australia's East Coast grid.
- Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming Sat, 2 Sep 23, 5:16amBy Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the next ten years...
- Inflation be damned — Brown coal is still making electricity for 3c a Kilowatt hour Sat, 15 Jul 23, 6:15amBy Jo Nova Don’t mention brown coal? Last quarter I reported that the Australian Energy Market Operators (AEMO) had strangely “forgotten” to list the brown coal prices in its quarterly report, despite it...
- Green Australia: where Industry is on Edge, the grid “precarious” and electricity prices up 25% Wed, 7 Jun 23, 5:19amBy Jo Nova The land that is the Renewable Crash Test Dummy is holding its breath This time last year, the Australian energy market turned into a kind of Hunger Games spectacle with daily feeding-fest at dinner time where...
- Six gigawatts of total wind generation collapsed in 16 hours last week, and nobody cared Mon, 8 May 23, 8:57pmBy Jo Nova Just another day of Wind turbine failure — 6GW in 16 hours There was no cyclone, no storm, no national disaster, but our national infrastructure collapsed just the same...
- Vale Liddell coal: given away for nothing and destroyed by predatory capitalism and a screwed Green market Sat, 29 Apr 23, 4:28amBy Jo Nova A “win” for predatory capitalism and government mis-interference Liddell power station (foreground). Bayswater power station (rear).Photo NSW DPI
- 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...