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- 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...
- SA renewable electricity market mayhem as frequency stabilizing costs hit record breaking $90 million Wed, 19 Feb 20, 4:46amSince SA was islanded the costs just to keep the frequency stable are as much as the energy itself Two weeks ago the Australian grid had a major near miss, and South Australia has been isolated from the rest of the nation...
- What do we call it when the State turns off your air conditioner? A “Peaksmart” moment Fri, 6 Dec 19, 4:50pm… You can’t make this stuff up. The Government advertising bureau — the ABC — is telling Queenslanders that it’s good for them if the government switches off their air conditioning. As we pay...
- Jeopardy: What happens when your single largest generator is uncontrolled and coordinated by clouds? Watch Western Australia Sun, 1 Dec 19, 8:48pmWestern Australia is a giant experiment: Even the Energy Experts are saying solar is jeopardizing the grid — it’s “dumb” Watch this space — blackout coming, 3 years and counting… The...
- 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...
- Basslink cable out again, costing Victorians more as prices rise Wed, 28 Aug 19, 4:12pmThe Basslink cable has gone down again, and is expected to be out of action til mid-October. Luckily for Tasmania, the dams are at 45% full. However in Victoria, which sits on one of the largest brown coal reserves in the...
- Unexpected UK EarthHour at peak time Friday — just after Wind Power hits new high? Sun, 11 Aug 19, 4:20amFragile grids Over a million people lost power in the UK yesterday thanks to the sudden outage of a gas and a wind plant. Some of the countries biggest railway stations were inoperable. Passengers were stuck on trains for...
- 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.
- Electric cars are perfect for socialists: Labor plan boosts Big-Gov, but worse for CO2, pollution, coal use, and grid Mon, 1 Apr 19, 6:42pmLabor’s electric car plan means higher emissions, more pollution, more coal use, and threatens the grid but it’s great for socialists. Fantasy-land: Labor wants half of all new cars sales to be EV’s by 2030....
- Melbourne, 200,000 houses blacked out, 10 companies curtailed, as 1-in-3-year hot day hits Sat, 26 Jan 19, 5:29am***UPDATED: Melbourne has been 42C or more around 50 times since 1855. That’s one in three years. Thanks to Bob Fernley-Jones for the correction.
- Melbourne, 200,000 houses blacked out, 10 companies curtailed, as 1-in-5-year hot day hits Sat, 26 Jan 19, 5:29amThey were only 250 million watts short: Loy Yang, powering Victoria, and soon probably “taking the blame” too. Rachel Baxendale, The Australian h/t Des Moore More than 200,000 Victorian households had their...
- SA and Vic at high risk of blackouts this summer Sun, 18 Nov 18, 5:21pmEven the AEMO is warning of blackouts coming, because the BoM is forecasting hot, dry conditions. El Nino on the way, and I hear rumours our Snowy Hydro Dam levels are not great.
- Both AGL, Origin warn renewables threaten grid, create chaos, drive off baseload, cause higher cost Wed, 10 Oct 18, 5:20pmAnother Hazelwood-size batch of renewables coming on line in Australia by 2020. That’s 1600MW of random subsidized energy dropping into a market that is artificially priced to value weather-changing potential over...