Houston 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...
Even if the Texas situation resolves tomorrow the anger will burn for months A few hours ago, about one quarter of Texas still didn’t have power...
It’s another hidden subsidy for “Green Power”.
Australians 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...
A $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...
Since 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...
… 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...
Western 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...
Welcome 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...
The 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...
Fragile 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...
A major new “nail in coffin” study shows the more renewables we force onto the market the more expensive electricity gets.
Labor’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....
***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.
They 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...
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