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- Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter Mon, 24 Jun 24, 2:35pmBy Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas...
- On fire! Australian opposition throws down the nuclear gauntlet in the Energy Wars: “No more large scale renewables” Wed, 19 Jun 24, 6:13amBy Jo Nova The Renewable Crash Test Dummy hits a fork in the road Finally the Australian opposition is bravely popping the sacred cow of the Energy Wars...
- 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
- Mystery: Australians invest billions in free wind and solar, but prices rise another 20-30% Thu, 16 Mar 23, 4:16amBy Jo Nova Last winter’s debacle in Australia could be repeated this year, but at even higher prices.
- Shh! Despite a bloodbath quarter for electricity prices, hated Brown Coal still sells at just 4c per KWh Sat, 26 Nov 22, 6:23amBy Jo Nova We’ve never had another third quarter this expensive Despite setting price records — averaging $200/MWh across the whole quarter for the whole five-state National Energy Market, there’s like a...
- Mayhem on the Australian Grid continues — Record prices, factory shutdowns, emergency warnings Tue, 10 May 22, 1:35amGeneration tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t) have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s so...
- Scorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland Wed, 4 May 22, 5:32amBrisbane on May 3rd was a glorious 15 to 25C (or 60F – 77F) and yet the price of electricity was shocking.
- Australian wholesale electricity prices have doubled in the last year (and it’s because we don’t have enough coal power) Sat, 30 Apr 22, 6:59amLuckily for Energy Oligarchs, Australian electricity prices have bounced right back to pre-pandemic insanity. Wholesale rates are romping around $170 dollars a megawatt hour in April across the whole national grid…
- Energy Crisis in the UK: 40% face fuel poverty by winter and Govt may finally stop “Green Levies” (too late) Fri, 22 Apr 22, 2:33amWow. What does it take to get a democratic government to stop picking winners in socialist electrical generation? It takes a war, a 50% price rise, and the possibility that 4 in 10 households might be reduced to third world...
- Glasgow: electricity bills will go up £500,000 extra to pay COP26’s official windfarm to turn off Thu, 11 Nov 21, 5:53amSome poor sods will be paying extra to help Griffith Wind Farms cover the cost of shutting down for part of the COP26 Superhero Costume Party. If only that secret charge was listed on their electricity bill. Where is the...
- NSW power so erratically expensive an aluminium smelter powered down three times in a week Sat, 22 May 21, 4:01amThe Tomago smelter uses more than 10% of the entire New South Wales electricity grid supply. But the price spikes in electricity are so crippling the industrial giant could not afford to keep running on three occasions in...
- Green energy “an existential threat to German economy” declares Supreme Auditors Fri, 2 Apr 21, 5:16amEmden, Germany by Gritte The supreme auditors of Germany warned about the costs of Green energy a few years ago, but now they are paying attention to energy security too, and with sudden alarm they’ve announced that...
- German experiment to make wind powered Silicon Chips fails Wed, 24 Feb 21, 6:23pmSurprising no one: lumpy expensive electricity does not make for a High Tech Paradise
- Un-Greening: Mexico gives up on renewables, revives coal industry Tue, 16 Feb 21, 4:13am… Mexico, the eleventh biggest population on Earth, was all enthused about renewables a few years ago, but now they are actively winding back wind and solar and reactivating coal projects...
- Extension cord to rescue renewable South Australia will now cost $2.4 billion Sat, 10 Oct 20, 3:45pmIt’s another hidden subsidy for “Green Power”.