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- 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...
- Two Australian families end up in hospital trying to heat homes with coal burners Sun, 24 Jul 22, 1:28amDo Australian Lives Matter? Two families this week, one in Adelaide and one in Sydney, tried to heat their homes with charcoal barbecues. Thankfully no one died. Four more people are rushed to hospital after burning COALS...
- Cold snaps and blistering electricity prices downunder — where one state burnt $2.4b in electricity in May Fri, 10 Jun 22, 5:52amAnd the bonfire continues As cold fronts sweep across the south east of Australia electricity prices are setting records nobody wants to set. The wholesale prices for electricity –across a whole month — soared...
- Energy Crisis picks up speed Downunder: Now a major Gas retailer goes under Wed, 25 May 22, 5:43amLast week small electricity retailers were bleeding so badly they doubled their prices and asked their customers to leave.
- 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…
- Bluescope spends a billion in US because “cheap energy” Wed, 21 Aug 19, 1:37pmAdd another billion to the cost of the Renewable Energy Target? In the last few days Bluescope Steel (formerly BHP) has confirmed it will spend US$700m (AU$1b) to expand it’s North Star steel mill in Ohio...
- Just change one rule — so the world can see what Wind and Solar really cost Tue, 20 Aug 19, 4:46amRandom power generators. Photo JoNova Wind and solar power are the intermittent freeloaders on the electricity grid. They are treated as if they’re generators, adding power to the grid, but instead they provide something...
- Invisible costs of renewables: “Staggeringly high” $125b for US electricity consumers Thu, 25 Apr 19, 3:47amA major new “nail in coffin” study shows the more renewables we force onto the market the more expensive electricity gets.
- Australian electricity market wrecked by big-gov: corporates gouge $3b from electricity customers Mon, 25 Mar 19, 6:43pmThanks to Big-Gov’s Renewable Energy Target, big corporate greed was unleashed: ABC — Australian energy giant AGL ‘gouged’ customers after Hazelwood closure, new research shows Some of the nation’s...
- The cost of one days electricity on the Australian grid is three times (or 50 times) more than it was in 2012 Mon, 11 Mar 19, 4:18pmThere were no headlines but $300 million dollars was burned at the stake of renewables Just another day on the exciting Australian NEM. Friday week ago we had another price spike hitting the $14,500 mandated price cap. On...
- 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...
- Windpower set to destroy Victorian baseload power just as it did in South Australia Fri, 3 Aug 18, 5:39pmCrash Test Dummy Update: Data analysis thanks to Tom Quirk In the South Australian experiment total wind power capacity is now far above the average state demand most hours of the day...