Renewable Crash Test Dummy: Friday edition For energy-nerds following the Australian experiment, today is a big day. On the up-side, three coal turbines have rebooted adding another 1200MW to the grid. On the down-side, the...
All the rules are breaking. The price market broke on Sunday night and now the interconnectors rules are broken too. The whole Eastern five state “National” grid is flying seat of the pants — the reserves...
The Queensland grid is in crisis — the forecast price for nearly the entire next 24 hours is 15,000 per megawatt hour.
It’s a grid on the edge Like a meteor-shower, the dinner time performance today may or may not be a spectator event. The fun may start at 4:30pm in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania — a full quinfecta at $15,000...
It’s the day before the election and all through the house, electricity bills are doubling…
Generation 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...
Mike Cannon-Brookes might be an Australian tech-billionaire who wants to buy out one of our biggest energy companies and get rid of coal, but not only does he apparently not understand electricity grids, he doesn’t...
Tuesday was a wild day for Queensland Electricity. An explosion struck the Callide C Power Plant triggering a cascade of other plants to switch off within seconds. The massive 2.5GW fall in supply took the grid frequency...
The island of Jersey gets 95% of its electricity via cables from France. The latest post-Brexit fishing dispute got so hot so fast, that a French minister even suggested cutting off the electricity if they didn’t get...
Houston Texas, Feb 2021. Image by Fish & Trips Texas toyed with cascading crises The Green Experiment could have gone so much worse. Here’s a man who was a gas industry executive involved in a near miss in New England...
The UK wants to get back its fishing territory as part of a Brexit deal. The French aren’t too happy about that, but since the UK is heavily dependent on French interconnectors Macron can and is holding the UK electricity...
It’s another hidden subsidy for “Green Power”.
Australians used to have an electricity grid that gave them the freedom to work from home For years they told us to work at home to help the environment. But thanks to a decentralized unreliable grid, Australians are now...
A $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...
Welcome to the new complexified energy grid where a cloud can cause a system black event — knocking out power for as much as nine hours. This affected the hospital for 30 minutes and the prolonged problems caused many...
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