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- 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...
- “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...