Fixing Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity means slashing subsidies to wind and solar: not in 2020, not in 2030, but right now. For the wayward and confused, it’s always important to remember that a straight line is the shortest, and often the safest, route home. Australia’s self-inflicted energy crisis started out with massive subsidies … Continue reading Only Solution to Australia’s Power Crisis: Cutting Subsidies to Intermittent Wind & Solar – Right Now
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Generators Game Power Market Around Wind & Solar Output Collapses: Spot Prices Routinely Hitting $14,000/MWh
Australia’s self-inflicted power crisis has reached the point of full-scale disaster, with only one way out: killing subsidies to wind and solar. Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has finally said what politicians are either too timid or too witless to even think. The chaos that’s been caused in the National Energy … Continue reading Generators Game Power Market Around Wind & Solar Output Collapses: Spot Prices Routinely Hitting $14,000/MWh
Competition Watchdog Slams Subsidised Wind & Solar: Demands Government Investment in Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power
It was only a matter of time before Australia’s ruinous renewable energy policies imploded and implode they just did. Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is the inevitable consequence of the so-called ‘transition’ to nature’s wonder fuels. And yet the wind and sun cult and renewable energy rent seekers continue to behave as if the … Continue reading Competition Watchdog Slams Subsidised Wind & Solar: Demands Government Investment in Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power
Outing Nature’s ‘Outages’: Chaotic Wind Power Output Drives Rocketing Australian Power Prices
Australia’s Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg has just bagged the Pinocchio Award for his continued line about falling power prices. Instead of retail relief, power consumers have been whacked by jumps of between 20 and 28% this year, on top of 20% increases, last year. The reason for rocketing power prices is the ‘behaviour’ of generators, … Continue reading Outing Nature’s ‘Outages’: Chaotic Wind Power Output Drives Rocketing Australian Power Prices
RE Madness Must End Now: Tony Abbott Calls Time-Out on Economy-Wrecking Paris Climate ‘Deal’
There are good deals, there are bad deals and there are disastrous deals. For Australia the Paris Climate ‘deal’ is a monstrous disaster. The realisation that an energy superpower found itself enmeshed in what is - for all intents and purposes - an international suicide pact, has just hit home. The only justification (if it … Continue reading RE Madness Must End Now: Tony Abbott Calls Time-Out on Economy-Wrecking Paris Climate ‘Deal’
Energy Minister Delivers National Suicide Note: NEG Spells Doom For Cheap & Reliable Power
Coal powers Queensland and its electricity is the cheapest in the nation. Wind and solar power South Australia, and its power is the most expensive in the world. Australia’s energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg is either deluded or lying, when he says that power prices are already on a steady descent. Power costs to business have … Continue reading Energy Minister Delivers National Suicide Note: NEG Spells Doom For Cheap & Reliable Power
National Energy Guarantee: Means Guaranteed Economic Destruction
Renewable energy rent-seekers hijacked the proposed National Energy Guarantee in order to ensure their subsidy-soaked futures. The reliability obligation - which would have guaranteed electricity to all power consumers during any worst-case scenario (eg, the height of summer when air-conditioners are running flat out and breathless weather means wind turbines are flat out producing anything … Continue reading National Energy Guarantee: Means Guaranteed Economic Destruction
If Australians Want Reliable & Affordable Electricity: It’s Coal-Fired Power or Nothing
The debate surrounding Australia’s energy crisis is occupied by two camps: deluded zealots and pragmatic realists. STT sits with the latter: we couldn’t care less whether electricity was generated using doggie doo, provided it’s available and affordable, to all-comers. Australia, as the world’s third largest exporter of uranium, ought to be throwing its money and … Continue reading If Australians Want Reliable & Affordable Electricity: It’s Coal-Fired Power or Nothing
War For Australian Business & Families Begins: Government Splits Over Renewable Energy Disaster
Subsidised wind and solar sent Australian power prices through the roof punishing households, threatening businesses and whole industries, without respite. The battle of Australia is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of civilisation as we’ve known it. What follows is a battle for this Country’s very economic future and the social … Continue reading War For Australian Business & Families Begins: Government Splits Over Renewable Energy Disaster
Crunch Time: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Down to Wind & Solar Obsession
At the heart of Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity is an obsession with intermittent and unreliable wind and solar. Mandated and massive subsidies - that those attempting to deliver electricity using nature’s wonder fuels have been wallowing in since the Australian Labor Party seriously upped the RE ante in 2010 - resulted in a … Continue reading Crunch Time: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Down to Wind & Solar Obsession
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