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- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices rocket Wed, 20 Feb 19, 3:37amA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices go crazy Wed, 20 Feb 19, 3:37amA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia rising 50% pa as electricity prices go crazy Wed, 20 Feb 19, 3:37amA few Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign...
- More wind and solar than SA can use — we threw away 10% of the generation Wed, 2 Jan 19, 6:03amSouth Australians have so much wind power, too much, that in Quarter 3 last year the AEMO had to intervene to cut off excess wind and solar generation...
- New Report: Renewables indirectly make electricity MORE expensive, so ABC tells Australia the opposite Mon, 24 Dec 18, 3:48pmOne big government agency quietly admits renewables make electricity more expensive, and another big gov media agency hides it. The new AMEC report tells us renewables will make electricity prices go down a tiny 2% in the...
- Deadly: a quarter of all solar panels pose high or severe risk Thu, 20 Dec 18, 5:39amGot Solar PV? Don’t let the kids play on the roof … In Australia, shonky fly-by-night installers are botching the wiring and not screwing the panels on properly...
- Santa says renewables “push down prices”. Sydney Morning Herald believes him. Wed, 12 Dec 18, 4:03amIt’s Santa’s happy hour in electricity land Finally, No really, renewables are so cheap we can switch to them and change the global climate for free...
- 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.
- Solar boom to bust in China: worlds largest solar PV projects drop 43% as subsidies cut Fri, 17 Aug 18, 3:06amThe advantage of communist autocrats is that they can create government havoc so much more efficiently.
- Ten years late the ACCC says rooftop solar deals must stop Thu, 12 Jul 18, 3:09amThe ACCC is a powerful body created to protect consumers in Australia. Now, after ten years of poor people being forced to pay for middle and upper class solar panels in a kind of semi-secret subsidy-tax, NOW, it says maybe...
- 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...
- Renewables Fail: fossil fuels, coal, same dominance of our energy mix as 20 years ago Sun, 17 Jun 18, 1:40pmDespite 20 years of non-stop propaganda and belligerent namecalling, strangely, expert green policies have achieved exactly nothing of what they said they aimed for...
- Energy Crisis: NSW can’t keep coal plants, or aluminium smelters running, prices hit $14,000MW/hr Sat, 9 Jun 18, 4:47pmIt’s not even summer. NSW has been hit by clouds and a lack of reliable coal power. Prices are soaring. In NSW the awatt hooooo Aluminium Smelter consumes about 10% of the state’s electricity. It has been forced...
- Even in sunniest Queensland, solar can’t run without big subsidies — so big they have to be kept secret Fri, 8 Jun 18, 4:02amSolar is so competitive that the Queensland government has to pour in money to keep solar developers from running away.
- Snowy Hydro goes activist, lobbies for renewables to boost profits, beat enemy “Coal” Thu, 24 May 18, 2:03amSpot the vested interest The biggest competitor for hydro in Australia is cheap old coal power. Surprise me, Snowy Hydro jumped into the national energy debate a few days ago on behalf of taxpayers themselves. With Turnbull...