The patrician and aloof Malcolm Turnbull continues as a parody of a PM. At a point when most political leaders would be reacting to the wholesale destruction of businesses and whole industries (along with tens of thousands of meaningful jobs) caused by spiralling power costs, Turnbull literally headed for the hills to pump his … Continue reading Wind Industry Salvage Mission: Turnbull Government Set to Squander $10 billion on Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro Boondoggle
Tag: Australia’s energy crisis
Stable, Reliable Coal-Fired Power Still the Cheapest By a Country Mile
You’ve got to hand it to the wind cult. Australia’s dwindling band of wind industry spruikers keep telling us that the answer to cheaper power prices is out there blowin’ in the wind. The more deranged among their number have been telling us that wind power is actually cheaper than coal-fired power, for years. There’s … Continue reading Stable, Reliable Coal-Fired Power Still the Cheapest By a Country Mile
Desperate Measures: Renewables Rush Leaves Australians Scrambling for Reliable Power
Act in haste, repent at your leisure: Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy fiasco has sent power prices through the roof and all but destroyed its once reliable power supplies. Over our Southern Summer, grid managers have been tearing their hair out, as they attempt to keep the lights on in South Australia, Victoria and New South … Continue reading Desperate Measures: Renewables Rush Leaves Australians Scrambling for Reliable Power
Wind Power Chaos Sets Up Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
There aren’t many guarantees in life (death and taxes usually top the list). However, after the debacle that’s played out in South Australia (the pinup girl for renewable energy zealots), there is nothing more certain than the relationship between subsidised renewables and rocketing power prices. Among energy market illiterates the argument goes that, because the … Continue reading Wind Power Chaos Sets Up Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
South Australia’s Electric ‘La-La Land’: Renewables Debacle Adds 124% to Wholesale Prices
One of the wind cult’s more pathetic efforts in late 2017 was to run a line that notionally wind powered South Australia’s wholesale power prices were finally heading south. All thanks, of course, to the wonder of sunshine and breezes. Meanwhile, back on earth, the reality is that South Australia’s wholesale power prices have increased … Continue reading South Australia’s Electric ‘La-La Land’: Renewables Debacle Adds 124% to Wholesale Prices
Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Sending Industries Offshore & Killing Thousands of Jobs
Australia’s industry leaders are screaming blue murder: power costs have doubled in less than three years and are set to do the same again. How they got that way is no mystery to STT followers: Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices In fact, the culprits are so easy to identify … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Sending Industries Offshore & Killing Thousands of Jobs
Rocketing Power Prices & Chaotic Supply Send Australian Businesses Packing to Pennsylvania USA
Every viable business depends upon a reliable and affordable electricity supply. In Australia, thanks to its suicidal renewable energy policies, that essential combination is now a relic of history. The chaos and staggering cost of intermittent wind and solar power has sent power prices through the roof and left its grid on the brink of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices & Chaotic Supply Send Australian Businesses Packing to Pennsylvania USA
Merry Christmas to Stop These Things’ Followers & Happy Fifth Birthday to STT
Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to all of our dedicated band of followers, all around the World. And it’s Happy Birthday to STT: Boxing Day 2017 marks 5 years of giving an embattled wind industry and its dwindling band of parasites and spruikers hell. We’ve clocked over 2,215,000 views and given our loyal readers 1,880 … Continue reading Merry Christmas to Stop These Things’ Followers & Happy Fifth Birthday to STT
Rescuing South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Renewable Disaster Costs Taxpayers $550m
Desperation is a stinky cologne and South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill is drenched in it. With an election in March, and terrified that another wind power output collapse will deliver another mass load shedding event or statewide blackout, Weatherill plugged into a mega-battery supplied by Elon Musk for a cool $150 million, that … Continue reading Rescuing South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Renewable Disaster Costs Taxpayers $550m
Australia’s Renewables ‘Transition’ Leaves 42,000 Families in Abject Energy Poverty
Australians have just worked out that the renewable energy obsession which has gripped our political betters is delivering power price increases, with no end in sight, and a grid on the very brink of collapse. While eco-zealots keep telling us that this is just a ‘bump in the road’, and that power consumers need to … Continue reading Australia’s Renewables ‘Transition’ Leaves 42,000 Families in Abject Energy Poverty