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- Welcome to a weather dependent nation — whether you can use your dishwasher depends on the wind Fri, 17 Jun 22, 5:49amRenewable 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...
- Still teetering: Blackout warnings across the Australian grid next three days Tue, 14 Jun 22, 8:29pmAll 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...
- Australian grid teeters on edge of blackouts tonight Mon, 13 Jun 22, 6:50pmThe Queensland grid is in crisis — the forecast price for nearly the entire next 24 hours is 15,000 per megawatt hour.
- Electricity Hunger Games downunder — potential sighting of four hour price bonfire Thu, 2 Jun 22, 4:14amIt’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...
- Shocking electricity price rises starting in Australia — so bad that small retailers ask customers to leave Fri, 20 May 22, 5:33amIt’s the day before the election and all through the house, electricity bills are doubling…
- 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...
- Clueless: 2nd richest man in Australia thinks we have a free market in energy Wed, 23 Feb 22, 6:28amMike 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...
- Queensland’s Near Miss: hydrogen may have exploded at a coal plant (and renewables don’t save the day) Thu, 27 May 21, 5:43amTuesday 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...
- France threatens UK electricity supply again, Navies called in Wed, 12 May 21, 4:45pmThe 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...
- Texas dodged a bullet: Would you like explosions with your blackouts? Mon, 22 Feb 21, 9:26pmHouston 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...
- Hands up! Your fish or your electricity. Macron threatens to cut interconnector to UK Tue, 20 Oct 20, 4:24pmThe 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...
- 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”.
- Thanks to wind and solar power, Australians have to drive to work to save the planet Mon, 21 Sep 20, 12:47pmAustralians 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...
- 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...
- Oopsie solar-battery fail? Cloud causes System Black event at Alice Springs affecting thousands Tue, 15 Oct 19, 5:58pmWelcome 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...