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- Don’t look now: Accounting trick destroys national economy Fri, 28 Jul 23, 10:11pmBy Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO report that assumes we’ve...
- Playing now: Accounting trick destroys national economy Fri, 28 Jul 23, 10:11pmBy Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO report that assumes we’ve...
- 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...
- 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
- 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.