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- Mayhem on the Australian Grid continues — Record prices, factory shutdowns, emergency warnings Tue, 10 May 22, 1:35amGeneration tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t) have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s so...
- Scorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland Wed, 4 May 22, 5:32amBrisbane on May 3rd was a glorious 15 to 25C (or 60F – 77F) and yet the price of electricity was shocking.
- 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…
- Energy Crisis in the UK: 40% face fuel poverty by winter and Govt may finally stop “Green Levies” (too late) Fri, 22 Apr 22, 2:33amWow. What does it take to get a democratic government to stop picking winners in socialist electrical generation? It takes a war, a 50% price rise, and the possibility that 4 in 10 households might be reduced to third world...
- Glasgow: electricity bills will go up £500,000 extra to pay COP26’s official windfarm to turn off Thu, 11 Nov 21, 5:53amSome poor sods will be paying extra to help Griffith Wind Farms cover the cost of shutting down for part of the COP26 Superhero Costume Party. If only that secret charge was listed on their electricity bill. Where is the...
- NSW power so erratically expensive an aluminium smelter powered down three times in a week Sat, 22 May 21, 4:01amThe Tomago smelter uses more than 10% of the entire New South Wales electricity grid supply. But the price spikes in electricity are so crippling the industrial giant could not afford to keep running on three occasions in...
- Green energy “an existential threat to German economy” declares Supreme Auditors Fri, 2 Apr 21, 5:16amEmden, Germany by Gritte The supreme auditors of Germany warned about the costs of Green energy a few years ago, but now they are paying attention to energy security too, and with sudden alarm they’ve announced that...
- German experiment to make wind powered Silicon Chips fails Wed, 24 Feb 21, 6:23pmSurprising no one: lumpy expensive electricity does not make for a High Tech Paradise
- Un-Greening: Mexico gives up on renewables, revives coal industry Tue, 16 Feb 21, 4:13am… Mexico, the eleventh biggest population on Earth, was all enthused about renewables a few years ago, but now they are actively winding back wind and solar and reactivating coal projects...
- Extension cord to rescue renewable South Australia will now cost $2.4 billion Sat, 10 Oct 20, 3:45pmIt’s another hidden subsidy for “Green Power”.
- There’s no such thing as clean energy Thu, 8 Oct 20, 4:29pmAll good environmentalists detest renewables and are appalled at the money wasted on the industrial renewables corporations.
- SA: Still at risk of blackout, one third of solar PV “switching off” to save state, needs $1.5b interconnector bandaid to NSW Fri, 19 Jun 20, 4:48pmA $1,500 million dollar emergency line is needed to rescue South Australia from renewable blackouts. Image: Marcus Wong Wongm Why do so few see the enormous subsidy cost of keeping the South Australian electricity...
- Victoria blows up cheapest electricity generator in the state Mon, 25 May 20, 7:15pmIn 2017 in its last month of operation, the 53 year old Hazelwood coal plant was still operating reliably 24 hours a day at around $30/MWhr and producing 1360MW of electricity...
- Tasmania wins Freeloader Climate Fashion Award for aim to “be 200% renewable” by 2040 Fri, 6 Mar 20, 1:34pmThe Tasmanian Government has just announced they will be “200% renewable” by 2040 — a feat only possible because they have an umbilical cord to hostages in the mainland who have to pay for irrelevant surges...
- SA renewable electricity market mayhem as frequency stabilizing costs hit record breaking $90 million Wed, 19 Feb 20, 4:46amSince SA was islanded the costs just to keep the frequency stable are as much as the energy itself Two weeks ago the Australian grid had a major near miss, and South Australia has been isolated from the rest of the nation...