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- Just as power grids struggle, the AI and EV electricity monsters turn up for breakfast Tue, 2 Apr 24, 6:48amBy Jo Nova As Western grids are teetering, people are suddenly realizing demand for electricity is about to skyrocket Unstoppable demands are about to meet immovable rocks...
- Germany: You will own a car and a heater but you can’t use them Thu, 30 Nov 23, 5:56amBy Jo Nova Oh the irony — Green heat pumps and EV’s will need to be curtailed on a Green Grid We’re watching the real time collapse of parts of the “Climate Industry” in on itself...
- New York narrowly missed a disaster last Christmas Eve: gas pipes froze and 127GW of electricity vanished Tue, 28 Nov 23, 6:01amBy Jo Nova Our cities are more fragile than we imagine During the winter storm called “Elliot” last Christmas, gas pipes came close to freezing in New York...
- $160,000 worth of wind and solar power with batteries can’t power two homes alone Fri, 27 Oct 23, 4:53amBy Jo Nova Let’s run an experiment on a whole nation that we can’t even do easily on a single home Photo | Daily Sceptic,
- 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...
- 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...
- South Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours long Fri, 19 May 23, 6:43amBy Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people are already going 10...
- Mystery: Australians invest billions in free wind and solar, but prices rise another 20-30% Thu, 16 Mar 23, 4:16amBy Jo Nova Last winter’s debacle in Australia could be repeated this year, but at even higher prices.
- 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...