AGL shows why power generators shouldn’t be energy retailers The Australian Judith Sloan 26 September 2017 Former senior executives of AGL must surely be shaking their heads in dismay. As the oldest listed company in the country, AGL has a tradition of measured and conservative conduct, as would be expected of a utility in the … Continue reading Government Uses Fake Gas ‘Crisis’ to Force Suppliers to Guarantee Gas to Costly & Inefficient Peaking Power Generators
Category: South Australia
American Lunatics Destroying Australia’s Power Supply: AEMO Head, Audrey Zibelman Pushes RET Suicide Pact
Our overseas followers must regard Australia with complete bewilderment. Here’s a Country renowned for being among the world’s largest coal, gas and uranium exporters and, yet, it is in the midst of a self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity. Throwing $60 billion in subsidies at intermittent wind and solar power has all but destroyed the … Continue reading American Lunatics Destroying Australia’s Power Supply: AEMO Head, Audrey Zibelman Pushes RET Suicide Pact
End of Days: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target on the Brink of Collapse
STT has been plugging away for almost 5 years, attempting to bring to an end to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Followers might have noticed that over the last month or so, our focus has been on Australia and the politics of power. Our overseas followers are probably getting sick of … Continue reading End of Days: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target on the Brink of Collapse
Sheik-Down, Down-Under: Saudi Billionaire Pockets $300m in Renewable Subsidies
Saudi solar tycoon’s $300m handout The Australian David Crowe 19 September 2017 Australians are set to pay $300 million in subsidies to an outback solar farm owned by a Saudi Arabian billionaire in a new test of the federal government’s looming energy reforms, escalating a dispute over whether to cut the handouts to keep coal-fired … Continue reading Sheik-Down, Down-Under: Saudi Billionaire Pockets $300m in Renewable Subsidies
Mainstream Journalists Finally Wake-Up to the Greatest Fraud of All Time: Subsidised Wind Power
Back in June 2013, STT asked: Where are Australia’s Journos – asleep or on drugs? At that point, we wondered about what had happened to the investigative journos like Chris Masters or Paul Barry? And whether all of the Nation’s scribes were either asleep, on drugs, paid up members of the Greens, or patsies … Continue reading Mainstream Journalists Finally Wake-Up to the Greatest Fraud of All Time: Subsidised Wind Power
Killing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target an Essential Economic Reboot
Combining climate with energy in a single policy setting is like combining a running child with super-sharp scissors: an unhealthy mix, prone to disaster. The concept of cutting CO2 emissions from a system which is built (and continues to rely) on coal-fired power generation, has the necessary and inevitable result of killing that system. Wind … Continue reading Killing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target an Essential Economic Reboot
Australia’s Massive Power Price Hike Caused by Intermittent Wind & Solar
The Australian Labor Party is funded by the Union Super funds that its faithful band of apparatchiks control. The likes of Bill Shorten, Greg Combet and Garry Weaven are all heavily invested in maintaining Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, because Union Super money, under their control, has been thrown into wind and solar power outfits like … Continue reading Australia’s Massive Power Price Hike Caused by Intermittent Wind & Solar
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Delivers Highest Power Prices in the World
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
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
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
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