The Australian Energy Market Operator, the industry body tasked with overseeing electricity supplies in East Coast Australia, has shied away from endorsing an Aussie government claim that renewables will reduce prices.
By Jo Nova It’s grand final day in Australia, and awkwardly the State of Victoria risks a grid overload. A truckload of solar power will arrive at lunchtime that no one needs, and which has no place to go.
By Jo Nova The Crash Test Dummy Nation wins a Gold Medal in Electricity Prices And you thought last week was bad. While the single spike at $17,000 a megawatt hour in five states simultaneously was a record, just a week later...
By Jo Nova It’s a 6pm bonfire on the Australian grid Over at WattClarity on Monday when every state had prices over $3,000 per MWh simultaneously, Dan Lee noted that this was extremely rare...
By Jo Nova It’s a 6pm bonfire on the Australian grid Over at WattClarity on Monday when every state had prices over $3,000 per MWh simultaneously, Dan Lee noted that this was extremely rare...
By Jo Nova This week the agitprop-media was full of contrived good news about electricity prices in Australia, associated suggestively, in the loosest, most meaningless way with the word “renewables”...
A just published Australian Energy Market Operator report highlights the urgent "opportunity" for the provision of reliable electricity to Australia's East Coast grid.
By Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the next ten years...
By Jo Nova Don’t mention brown coal? Last quarter I reported that the Australian Energy Market Operators (AEMO) had strangely “forgotten” to list the brown coal prices in its quarterly report, despite it...
By Jo Nova The land that is the Renewable Crash Test Dummy is holding its breath This time last year, the Australian energy market turned into a kind of Hunger Games spectacle with daily feeding-fest at dinner time where...
By Jo Nova Just another day of Wind turbine failure — 6GW in 16 hours There was no cyclone, no storm, no national disaster, but our national infrastructure collapsed just the same...
By Jo Nova A “win” for predatory capitalism and government mis-interference Liddell power station (foreground). Bayswater power station (rear).Photo NSW DPI
By Jo Nova Many Australians face a 20% rise in their electricity bill this coming winter, so it seems odd that the AEMO* forgot to put the price of the cheapest source of electricity in their last quarterly report...
Forty years ago, Australia had an electricity system delivering cheap, reliable power. That is no longer the case.
Aussie Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is confident the grid will remain reliable as dispatchable generators are decommissioned, despite official reports which warn there are big problems.
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