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- By Jo Nova Finally, twenty years too late, Australian leaders are talking about the galactic cost of making a spare energy grid that might, maybe, hopefully one day reduce world temperatures by one thousandth of a degree...
- Let’s burn money Ed: Flywheels could power the UK for half a second at a million dollars a megawatt hour Tue, 8 Oct 24, 6:31amBy Jo Nova Thanks to Paul Homewood at NotAlotofPeopleKnowThat for finding this gem of a video.
- Smart but deceptive: NSW govt keeps big coal plant on until just after the next election to avoid $3b electricity bill shock Wed, 14 Aug 24, 7:32amBy Jo Nova Hiding the costs of renewables until after the next election The largest coal plant in Australia was supposed to close in August next year, but the NSW government decided to buy a two year extension until a few...
- 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...
- 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...
- Renewable energy is too expensive to make “green hydrogen” — Twiggy goes to Arizona instead Tue, 30 Apr 24, 6:12amImage by Manuel Angel Egea
- Alinta chief admits the transition has “soaring costs”, and has stalled because of the rooftop solar glut Thu, 25 Apr 24, 6:30amSolar panels eat the profits at lunchtime By Jo Nova The system is reaching a crisis point and April is turning out to be the month of confessions His speech was the sound of an industry being tortured...
- The most expensive electricity on Earth is in countries with “cheapest sources of electricity” Tue, 23 Apr 24, 5:42amBy Jo Nova In the Bermuda Triangle of electricity bills, the more cheap generators you add, the higher your electricity bills grow
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- Blistering electricity prices: It was the quarter the whole market broke and Australia got a $12.1b price signal Sat, 30 Jul 22, 6:13amLooks like a system wide failure For years the average wholesale price was somewhere between $30 and $60 per megawatt hour for electricity on the Australian national grid...