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- 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...
- The Battery of the Nation disconnected for two months – Basslink cable inoperable again Thu, 10 May 18, 6:52pmFor the last year everyone has been calling Tasmania the “Battery of the Nation” — Turnbull, Hydro Tasmania, government departments, the ever hopeful green press...
- Bloodbath in the German solar “industry” — without subsidies 80,000 solar jobs are gone Sun, 29 Apr 18, 3:11amClimate Worriers have the most terrible luck. All the runes were lined up for Solar power — it is nearly free, pours from heaven, and millions of people seem to need energy “pretty often”. Plus universities...
- Our Socialist Electricity Grid works perfectly for everyone except consumers Fri, 20 Apr 18, 4:02pmWhat destroys a grid faster than than a socialist electricity system? A semi-socialist system that pretends to be a free market.
- Hidden Costs: how wind generation makes gas power $30/MWh more expensive Wed, 11 Apr 18, 3:33amJust another hidden cost — intermittent generators are vandals on our baseload suppliers. Wind power needs gas, but gas doesn’t need the wind. When the two are paired together it makes the wind energy “reliable”...
- 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...
- EIA estimates for USA in 2050: The Future is Fossil Fuels and Cheap Electricity Mon, 12 Feb 18, 6:16pmWhat energy transformation? The EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2018 is out. The hard heads at the US Dept of Energy crunched the numbers, assumed technology will improve, and modeled the outcomes. According to their best estimates...
- 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.
- Forget Megawatts, ABC invents new unit of power — “size of Tasmania” Sun, 17 Dec 17, 5:04amOutback couple build solar farm to prove fringe-of-grid power generation needs Building a $14 million solar farm is an expensive way to send a message about electricity prices, but Doug and Lyn Scouller said they were left...
- Another hidden cost of intermittent renewables (It’s time to talk about FCAS and roaring price spikes!) Thu, 7 Dec 17, 4:45amThe shape of normal AC Electricity: 50Hz (230V) and 60Hz (110V) Nobody says much about FCAS in public — but it’s become a hot topic among Australia’s energy-nerds and electricity traders...