STT has been battling this for years. We have attempted to throw every sound and reasoned argument against subsidised wind power, but the single most damaging feature of attempting to rely on the weather for power is the obscene cost. In short, the headline grabber is always, and everywhere, retail power prices. No amount of … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Delivers Highest Power Prices in the World
Category: Australia’s renewable energy target
Malcolm, Josh Grow Up, Kill the Renewable Energy Target & Go Nuclear
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. Australians are fast growing up to the fact that running a country on sunshine and breezes is so much childish nonsense. Like most childish … Continue reading Malcolm, Josh Grow Up, Kill the Renewable Energy Target & Go Nuclear
Killing Off Australia’s Suicidal Renewable Energy Target Only Path to Economic Salvation
STT has been banging on about this since December 2012 and, for most of that time, pretty much alone. Massive and endless subsidies to a chaotic power source, abandoned centuries ago for obvious reasons have cost this country very dearly. Maintaining the Federal government's Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target fixes Australia on a path to economic … Continue reading Killing Off Australia’s Suicidal Renewable Energy Target Only Path to Economic Salvation
Power Politics: Australia’s Energy Crisis Turns Voters Against Subsidised Wind & Solar
The well-worn mantra is that everyone is all in favour of renewable energy. And there’s something in it - right up to the point when they have to pay for it. Or right up to the point when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing and they’re left sitting freezing or boiling in … Continue reading Power Politics: Australia’s Energy Crisis Turns Voters Against Subsidised Wind & Solar
Australian Summer Forecast: More Blackouts & Rocketing Power Prices
Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes is about to get really, really serious. South Australia’s reputation as both Australia’s wind power capital and the home of the highest power prices in the world, and mass load shedding and statewide blackouts is no coincidence. The implicit purpose behind Australia’s Federal Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is … Continue reading Australian Summer Forecast: More Blackouts & Rocketing Power Prices
The Big Steal: ‘Green’-Left Lobby GetUp! Ripping $Millions Off Gullible Power Consumers
Oh, the irony. GetUp!, a hard-green-left lobby group, renowned for running vitriolic viral campaigns by email and social media, has just been caught out helping to rip off unwitting power consumers, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. GetUp! has been in the news lately over the sources of its murky financial backing, … Continue reading The Big Steal: ‘Green’-Left Lobby GetUp! Ripping $Millions Off Gullible Power Consumers
Last Man Standing: Nuclear Plants Power Texans During Deluge – Wind Turbines Automatically Shut Down During Hurricane Harvey
Texans have been in the news for all the wrong reasons, over the last week or so. Hurricane Harvey belted the Texan coast with 130 mph (209 kph) winds and delivered a deluge of biblical proportions. For some time now, Texas has been the pinup girl for American wind worshippers. With some 21,000 MW of … Continue reading Last Man Standing: Nuclear Plants Power Texans During Deluge – Wind Turbines Automatically Shut Down During Hurricane Harvey
Renewable Target Revolt: Desperate Coalition MPs Demand New HELE Coal Plants
In Canberra, the politics of power has become a veritable powder keg for the patrician and aloof PM, Malcolm Turnbull. His hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg will go down in history as the man who, almost single-handedly, destroyed Australia’s enviable wealth and hard fought for prosperity. As power hungry businesses have just worked out, Australia’s … Continue reading Renewable Target Revolt: Desperate Coalition MPs Demand New HELE Coal Plants
Australia’s $60bn Business & Job Killing Renewable Energy Target: Turnbull & Frydenberg Dare Not Speak Its Name
Finally, the message is starting to get through: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target is a $60 billion tax on all Australian power consumers and, therefore, a guaranteed business and job killer. However, those tuned in to the PM, Malcolm Turnbull and his hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg wouldn’t know it. Frydenberg continues to rail about Labor’s ‘aspirational’ 50% … Continue reading Australia’s $60bn Business & Job Killing Renewable Energy Target: Turnbull & Frydenberg Dare Not Speak Its Name
Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity: The Never Ending Story Continues
Australians probably feel like they’re stuck in the MA+ sequel to The Never Ending Story - a horror movie in which a band of lunatics, driven by greed, stupidity and ideology took a little under a decade to destroy a once wealthy and prosperous Nation, while their renewables rent-seeking mates pocketed more than $60 billion … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity: The Never Ending Story Continues
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