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- Transition hell: Solar plants sit idle for 4 years in NT because of fears they’d make the grid too unstable Fri, 23 Aug 24, 7:07amENI Katherine Solar Farm By Jo Nova The Northern Territory is a test case for renewable energy and it’s a bonfire In 2016, the new Labor Government waved a magic wand and commanded they would be 50% renewable by 2030...
- The more renewables Australia added the more expensive electricity got Thu, 25 Jul 24, 7:02amBy Jo Nova If Australia gets any more free cheap energy we’ll go broke The Australian Energy Regulator has the data on electricity pricing and possibly a budget $20 million a year but hasn’t yet updated with the...
- Go Vegan to stop blackouts: Climate Change causes Electricity Grid failure now Wed, 17 Jul 24, 5:15am… By Jo Nova Shh: The great Power Grid Necromancers are at work And you thought Blackouts were caused by bad management, but really, it’s “Climate Change”...
- Wild Experiments? Alice Springs fossil fuel grid becomes too unstable with more than 13% solar power Fri, 3 May 24, 6:51amBy Jo Nova Ponder how destructive solar power is: It only takes 13% solar to push a small grid to the edge A little bit of solar power causes mayhem on a perfectly good grid.
- Just as power grids struggle, the AI and EV electricity monsters turn up for breakfast Tue, 2 Apr 24, 6:48amBy Jo Nova As Western grids are teetering, people are suddenly realizing demand for electricity is about to skyrocket Unstoppable demands are about to meet immovable rocks...
- Germany: You will own a car and a heater but you can’t use them Thu, 30 Nov 23, 5:56amBy Jo Nova Oh the irony — Green heat pumps and EV’s will need to be curtailed on a Green Grid We’re watching the real time collapse of parts of the “Climate Industry” in on itself...
- New York narrowly missed a disaster last Christmas Eve: gas pipes froze and 127GW of electricity vanished Tue, 28 Nov 23, 6:01amBy Jo Nova Our cities are more fragile than we imagine During the winter storm called “Elliot” last Christmas, gas pipes came close to freezing in New York...
- $160,000 worth of wind and solar power with batteries can’t power two homes alone Fri, 27 Oct 23, 4:53amBy Jo Nova Let’s run an experiment on a whole nation that we can’t even do easily on a single home Photo | Daily Sceptic,
- Don’t look now: Accounting trick destroys national economy Fri, 28 Jul 23, 10:11pmBy Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO report that assumes we’ve...
- Playing now: Accounting trick destroys national economy Fri, 28 Jul 23, 10:11pmBy Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO report that assumes we’ve...
- 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...
- South Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours long Fri, 19 May 23, 6:43amBy Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people are already going 10...
- 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.
- Welcome to a weather dependent nation — whether you can use your dishwasher depends on the wind Fri, 17 Jun 22, 5:49amRenewable Crash Test Dummy: Friday edition For energy-nerds following the Australian experiment, today is a big day. On the up-side, three coal turbines have rebooted adding another 1200MW to the grid. On the down-side, the...
- Still teetering: Blackout warnings across the Australian grid next three days Tue, 14 Jun 22, 8:29pmAll the rules are breaking. The price market broke on Sunday night and now the interconnectors rules are broken too. The whole Eastern five state “National” grid is flying seat of the pants — the reserves...