Whether it’s the looming threat of mass blackouts and load shedding this coming summer, the 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid (families unable to pay power bills increasing at 20%, year-on-year) or thousands of pensioners freezing in the dark, Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes just got serious. Hitherto … Continue reading Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency
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SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Starting next week, hard-pressed households and battered businesses will start receiving power bills which will be between 16 and 20% higher than the same time last year. In Australia, the underlying rate of inflation is around 1.5%. Punitive power bills have left 25% of households unable to heat their homes during the depth of an … Continue reading SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
The moral of the story of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ isn’t don’t lie, it’s don’t tell the same lie twice. Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda. South Australia (Australia’s so-called ‘wind … Continue reading Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
Clueless: Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Deepens as Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Fudges & Fumbles
On the battlefield for Australia’s wealth and future economic prosperity, the forces have been divided between those pushing for the retention of the suicidal renewable energy policies that have all but crippled Australian business - particularly energy hungry businesses, like mining, manufacturing and mineral processing - and those hoping to bring an end to … Continue reading Clueless: Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Deepens as Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Fudges & Fumbles
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Pure Political Poison for PM, Malcolm Turnbull
Not for the first time and not for the last time, Australia’s PM, Malcolm Turnbull is facing a nemesis of his own creation. The first time round, as Liberal opposition leader, Turnbull’s innate desire to pander to inner-city lefties had him snuggle up to Labor (the party he was naturally designed to lead) and advocate … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Pure Political Poison for PM, Malcolm Turnbull
Want to Wreck Your Nation? Plug Into Intermittent Wind & Solar – Australia Did
A week or so back, we picked up on a brilliant article in The Australian by Henry Ergas - Professor of Infrastructure Economics at the University of Wollongong’s SMART Infrastructure Facility - in which he likened Australia’s renewable energy policies to a death wish (our post here). Henry’s back, this time on 2GB detailing the … Continue reading Want to Wreck Your Nation? Plug Into Intermittent Wind & Solar – Australia Did
Renewable Energy Debacle: Alan Finkel’s Report a Lost Chance to End Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind Power Calamity
*** Australia's self-inflicted power market calamity has resulted in power prices which are now the highest in the world (as of 1 July 2017, South Australia officially tops the international list on that score, and by a comfortable margin) - a disaster for businesses and households in a country which once, not so very long … Continue reading Renewable Energy Debacle: Alan Finkel’s Report a Lost Chance to End Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind Power Calamity
Australia’s Wind Power Calamity: Canberra’s Government Tells Households to Rug-Up with Blankets
The ACT government did something that every bunch of green-left ideologically driven lunatics are programmed to do: it set a 90% Renewable Energy Target. The ACT government is in a joint venture power retailing business with Australia’s ‘Enron’ aka AGL, ActewAGL; and, in an effort to satisfy its costly vanity project, went far and … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Power Calamity: Canberra’s Government Tells Households to Rug-Up with Blankets
Wind Industry Says It’s Time to Cut the Subsidies: ‘Wind Power Cheaper than Coal’
STT loves an eye-catching headline. Today’s is, on one level, the kind of spoof headline dished out by Washington pranksters, The Onion: so outrageous, that no sentient being could accept the premise. However, half of our headline is quite literally true: the wind industry has been putting out figures claiming that it is not only … Continue reading Wind Industry Says It’s Time to Cut the Subsidies: ‘Wind Power Cheaper than Coal’
Alan Finkel’s Bogus Adventure: Staggering Costs of Clean Energy Target Hidden From View
One thing time Finkel will never be accused of is under-selling his 42% renewable energy target, re-boxed and badged as a clean energy target 'CET'. However, the trouble with hubris is that it does not take very long to prick the over-eager salesman's balloon. As we pointed out in yesterday's post, Finkel's forecast power price … Continue reading Alan Finkel’s Bogus Adventure: Staggering Costs of Clean Energy Target Hidden From View
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