Australia’s energy policy crisis is like Game of Thrones starring complete idiots - every crazy plot twist is matched by something crazier still. The latest comes from New South Wales. NSW Labor opposition leader, Michael Daley isn’t the first, and he won’t be the last, maniac to suggest the world can be powered entirely … Continue reading 100% Lunacy: Australia’s Power Policy Becomes Playground for Deranged Virtue Signallers
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Déjà vu All Over Again: Liberal PM Determined to Squander $10 Billion on Pumped Hydro White Elephant
Australia’s obsession with hopelessly intermittent wind and solar has rendered its power supply both unreliable and unaffordable: it’s time to stop digging. Except, on both sides of the political divide, it seems the obsession is one without reason or respite. Labor’s opposition leader, Bill Shorten is determined to destroy Australia’s economic prosperity - literally … Continue reading Déjà vu All Over Again: Liberal PM Determined to Squander $10 Billion on Pumped Hydro White Elephant
Labor’s 50% RET: Rocketing Power Prices Bring Guaranteed Economic Destruction
Australia’s renewable energy policy is already a disaster. But Labor’s Bill Shorten promises total catastrophe with his National 50% RET. In yesterday’s post, STT picked up on economic analysis put forward by Dr Brian Fisher, which provided a wake-up call to Australians. The economic cost of current so-called ‘climate and energy policy’ is in … Continue reading Labor’s 50% RET: Rocketing Power Prices Bring Guaranteed Economic Destruction
Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Government Mandates Economic Suicide
Australia’s energy policy reads more like a Greek tragedy. An obsession with wind and solar has left Australians with rocketing power prices and an unstable grid. Renewable energy rent seekers have profited (obscenely) from the greatest government mandated wealth transfer in history: $70,000,000,000 worth of subsidies and soft loans will be thrown at wind … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Government Mandates Economic Suicide
Cuomo’s Con-job: Governor’s Bogus Claims About New York’s All Wind & Solar Powered Future
No country has ever powered itself entirely using wind and solar, no country ever will. Andrew Cuomo appears to think that New York State can defy the laws of nature, physics and economics. The Governor is ready to trash his State’s reliable and affordable electricity supply, claiming he can replace it with a ‘system’ powered … Continue reading Cuomo’s Con-job: Governor’s Bogus Claims About New York’s All Wind & Solar Powered Future
Renewables Reality Check: Giant Batteries No Solution to Wind Power’s Chaotic Delivery
South Australia is Australia’s wind and solar capital: resulting in an unstable grid and the world’s highest power prices. One wheeze in purported answer to the debacle above was Elon Musk’s giant 100 MW lithium-ion battery. It cost taxpayers a cool $150,000,000 and delivers occasional spurts of power to the grid, whenever the sun sets … Continue reading Renewables Reality Check: Giant Batteries No Solution to Wind Power’s Chaotic Delivery
Australia’s Obsession With Hopelessly Intermittent Wind & Solar Wrecking Entire Power Grid
Australians once enjoyed affordable power, reliably delivered: the chaotic delivery of wind and solar changed all that. Australian power prices have rocketed out-of-control: its wind and solar power capital, South Australia pays the highest electricity prices, in the world. Mass power cuts (aka load shedding and demand management) and mass blackouts are the new normal. … Continue reading Australia’s Obsession With Hopelessly Intermittent Wind & Solar Wrecking Entire Power Grid
Totally ‘Gored’: Texan Town Pays Heavy Price for 100% Wind & Solar Vanity Project
Keen to pay ridiculous amounts for power in an act of pointless vanity? - get your town to go 100% wind & solar. Georgetown, Texas did and its 71,000 citizens are paying a heavy price. Despite the hype, the town isn’t being exclusively powered by sunshine and breezes; quietly and ever so hypocritically the town … Continue reading Totally ‘Gored’: Texan Town Pays Heavy Price for 100% Wind & Solar Vanity Project
Wind & Solar Chaos Leaves Europe’s Power Grid On Brink of Total Collapse
Germany led the way, and others soon followed: erratically delivered wind and solar now dominates Europe’s power grid. Naturally enough, power prices have rocketed and grid managers are left to deal with the chaos delivered by sunset and/or calm weather. Rapid surges and/or collapses in voltage and frequency - consequent upon surges and collapses in … Continue reading Wind & Solar Chaos Leaves Europe’s Power Grid On Brink of Total Collapse
Biggest Losers: Power Consumers Pay Insane Cost to Backup Intermittent Wind & Solar
Wind and solar collapses in SA and VIC on 24 and 25 January sent power prices into orbit, as conventional generators cashed in on the chaos. As wind and solar power output hit the floor, the spot price of power hit $14,500 per MWh. The additional cost to power consumers was in excess of $1,100,000,000 … Continue reading Biggest Losers: Power Consumers Pay Insane Cost to Backup Intermittent Wind & Solar
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