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- 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...
- “No bias here” says Aust Energy Market chief while planning 100% for unnecessary, pointless renewables transition Thu, 2 Aug 18, 2:27pmPull the other one. No Bias — Audrey Zibelman,
- UK: smart meters are expected to save a whopping £11 annually Sun, 22 Jul 18, 1:12am… No one needed a smart meter when we had smart baseload. Beware Australians, despite the promises and threats, smart meters may or may not make UK customers a paltry saving. When all is said and done it’s not...
- Spent $1.5 billion on an interconnector to get a tiny cut in obscenely inflated electricity bills! Sat, 30 Jun 18, 4:46amWhat costs $1,500m, makes no electricity, but “saves money”? South Australia has used federal subsidies to build more wind power than it can use...
- Electricity prices fell for forty years in Australia, then renewables came… Wed, 21 Feb 18, 3:57amElectricity prices declined for forty years. Obviously that had to stop. Here’s is the last 65 years of Australian electricity prices — indexed and adjusted for inflation. During the coal boom, Australian electricity...
- Political Vandals: Victoria, the diesel state, bans, hides, cheap cleaner gas, blames fuses, air conditioners Mon, 29 Jan 18, 6:06pmHow much do we hate Lignite Gas? Victoria is suffering the largest rises in wholesale electricity prices in the country, as it sits on large gas fields that it won’t touch...
- Who would have thought? Nations with more renewables have more expensive electricity Wed, 24 Jan 18, 6:34amThe Mystery: The most resource rich nation on Earth has the highest electricity prices?! Ask anyone and get confused: It’s poles and wires, gaming of the system by capitalist pigs, excessive taxes, privatization, and...
- Bonfire Electricity Bills! Two day heat wave burns nearly $400m: $45 per head in Vic, $70 each in SA. Sun, 21 Jan 18, 9:47pmWhile geniuses are bragging that the Australian grid survived two normal hot summer days without falling over, they don’t mention the flaming spectacle of the cost.
- Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, “Code Yellow Alert”. Fri, 19 Jan 18, 3:56pmUPDATE: MELBOURNE hospitals are enacting emergency procedures to prepare for the potential loss of power. Hospitals are switching off non-essential electrical equipment, including some lights, to minimize energy use. This...
- Clean and Green Investment Forum — Summary Tue, 21 Jun 11, 8:53amThe following guest post is from Jonathan Callahan, a PhD chemist currently working as a data management / information access consultant. Jonathan writes on energy issues and data management at Mazamascience.com.