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- Grid not-fit-for-purpose: On a warm day, Crazy Australia paid $3.5m to industry to *stop* working Sat, 7 Dec 24, 6:55amBy Jo Nova The Australian electricity grid is not-fit-for-purpose. And failure is being normalized. Last Wednesday during the near-miss of a blackout in Sydney the AEMO spent $3,558,000 on “demand reduction” which...
- Pull down the blinds. We’re in a Transition to the Third World Fri, 29 Nov 24, 7:26amby Jo Nova Australia is too poor to use air-conditioning and dishwashers on a warm day Welcome to Bananaustralia.
- Not even summer, with one warm week, and the Australian grid is on the verge of blackouts Tue, 26 Nov 24, 8:29amBy Jo Nova Following the footsteps of Cuba It’s not even summer and the Australian grid is having heart palpitations.
- AEMO Head Avoids Endorsing a Government Guarantee that Renewables will Reduce Energy Prices Thu, 24 Oct 24, 12:00pmThe 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.
- Australian grid risks an overload at lunchtime as solar power floods the system Sat, 28 Sep 24, 7:13amBy 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.
- Renewable Hell: Electricity price spikes hit $16,000 morning and night in our two largest states Tue, 6 Aug 24, 6:23amBy 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...
- Wholesale Electricity prices hit $17,000 in five states in Australia –Renewable fans blame a lack of coal power (?) Fri, 2 Aug 24, 7:03amBy 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...
- Wholesale Electricity prices hit $17,000 in every state in Australia –Renewable fans blame a lack of coal power (?) Fri, 2 Aug 24, 7:03amBy 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...
- Electricity prices fall from ridiculous peak but it’s not due to renewables and it’s still not cheap Fri, 26 Jan 24, 5:42amBy 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”...
- Renewable Fail: East Coast Aussie States Are Failing or About to Fail Energy Reliability Standards Mon, 4 Sep 23, 7:00amA just published Australian Energy Market Operator report highlights the urgent "opportunity" for the provision of reliable electricity to Australia's East Coast grid.
- Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming Sat, 2 Sep 23, 5:16amBy 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...
- Inflation be damned — Brown coal is still making electricity for 3c a Kilowatt hour Sat, 15 Jul 23, 6:15amBy 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...
- Green Australia: where Industry is on Edge, the grid “precarious” and electricity prices up 25% Wed, 7 Jun 23, 5:19amBy 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...
- Six gigawatts of total wind generation collapsed in 16 hours last week, and nobody cared Mon, 8 May 23, 8:57pmBy 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...
- Vale Liddell coal: given away for nothing and destroyed by predatory capitalism and a screwed Green market Sat, 29 Apr 23, 4:28amBy Jo Nova A “win” for predatory capitalism and government mis-interference Liddell power station (foreground). Bayswater power station (rear).Photo NSW DPI