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- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices rocket 17 hours agoA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices go crazy 17 hours agoA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia rising 50% pa as electricity prices go crazy 17 hours agoA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- Melbourne, 200,000 houses blacked out, 10 companies curtailed, as 1-in-3-year hot day hits Sat, 26 Jan 19, 5:29am***UPDATED: Melbourne has been 42C or more around 50 times since 1855. That’s one in three years. Thanks to Bob Fernley-Jones for the correction.
- Melbourne, 200,000 houses blacked out, 10 companies curtailed, as 1-in-5-year hot day hits Sat, 26 Jan 19, 5:29amThey were only 250 million watts short: Loy Yang, powering Victoria, and soon probably “taking the blame” too. Rachel Baxendale, The Australian h/t Des Moore More than 200,000 Victorian households had their...
- Warning: Money on fire in Vic and SA electricity prices at $14,000 per MWh Thu, 24 Jan 19, 6:58pmPrices are “off the chart” in Vic and SA right now and likely for the next few hours. Factories will be closing. Diesel generators will be running, but only in South Australia and Victoria. At these kinds of prices...
- Warning: Money on fire in Vic and SA electricity prices at $14,000 per MW Thu, 24 Jan 19, 6:58pmPrices are “off the chart” in Vic and SA right now and likely for the next few hours. Factories will be closing. Diesel generators will be running, but only in South Australia and Victoria. At these kinds of prices...
- New Report: Renewables indirectly make electricity MORE expensive, so ABC tells Australia the opposite Mon, 24 Dec 18, 3:48pmOne big government agency quietly admits renewables make electricity more expensive, and another big gov media agency hides it. The new AMEC report tells us renewables will make electricity prices go down a tiny 2% in the...
- Santa says renewables “push down prices”. Sydney Morning Herald believes him. Wed, 12 Dec 18, 4:03amIt’s Santa’s happy hour in electricity land Finally, No really, renewables are so cheap we can switch to them and change the global climate for free...
- SA and Vic at high risk of blackouts this summer Sun, 18 Nov 18, 5:21pmEven the AEMO is warning of blackouts coming, because the BoM is forecasting hot, dry conditions. El Nino on the way, and I hear rumours our Snowy Hydro Dam levels are not great.
- “No bias here” says Aust Energy Market chief while planning 100% for unnecessary, pointless renewables transition Thu, 2 Aug 18, 2:27pmPull the other one. No Bias — Audrey Zibelman,
- The Crash Test Dummy speeds up: our Renewable Target is 16% and rising, so are our electricity prices Sun, 29 Jul 18, 3:42pmThe Renewables Lobby subsidy and handouts are still growing. In 2018, Australia must get 16% of all our electricity from “renewables”, up from 14.2% last year.
- UK: smart meters are expected to save a whopping £11 annually Sun, 22 Jul 18, 1:12am… No one needed a smart meter when we had smart baseload. Beware Australians, despite the promises and threats, smart meters may or may not make UK customers a paltry saving. When all is said and done it’s not...
- Spent $1.5 billion on an interconnector to get a tiny cut in obscenely inflated electricity bills! Sat, 30 Jun 18, 4:46amWhat costs $1,500m, makes no electricity, but “saves money”? South Australia has used federal subsidies to build more wind power than it can use...
- Energy Crisis: NSW can’t keep coal plants, or aluminium smelters running, prices hit $14,000MW/hr Sat, 9 Jun 18, 4:47pmIt’s not even summer. NSW has been hit by clouds and a lack of reliable coal power. Prices are soaring. In NSW the awatt hooooo Aluminium Smelter consumes about 10% of the state’s electricity. It has been forced...