Silly old DDH just won't go away even after being exposed as just another Greeny type fraud totally devoid of technical know how and confirming the worst suspicions.

As the hostile belligerent union parasites with their sabotage and extortion force Australian industries to close here and move to China then China has no choice but to dramatically increase their power generation capacity with clean coal of course.



As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants
By Hiroko Tabuchi July 1, 2017


Workers at a construction site at the Sahiwal coal power plant, owned by China’s state-owned Huaneng Shandong Ruyi Group, in Pakistan. The country’s coal capacity is set to grow 15,300 megawatts from 190. Credit Asad Zaidi/Bloomberg

When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as President Trump vowed to “bring back coal” in America, the contrast seemed to confirm Beijing’s new role as a leader in the fight against climate change.

But new data on the world’s biggest developers of coal-fired power plants paints a very different picture: China’s energy companies will make up nearly half of the new coal generation expected to go online in the next decade.

These Chinese corporations are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal, according to tallies compiled by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin. Many of the plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries.



The fleet of new coal plants would make it virtually impossible to meet the goals set in the Paris climate accord, which aims to keep the increase in global temperatures from preindustrial levels below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Electricity generated from fossil fuels like coal is the biggest single contributor globally to the rise in carbon emissions, which scientists agree is causing the Earth’s temperatures to rise.

“Even today, new countries are being brought into the cycle of coal dependency,” said Heffa Schücking, the director of Urgewald.

The United States may also be back in the game. On Thursday, Mr. Trump said he wanted to lift Obama-era restrictions on American financing for overseas coal projects as part of an energy policy focused on exports.



The frenzied addition of coal plants underscores how the world is set to remain dependent on coal for decades, despite fast growth in renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power.

In China, concerns over smog and climate change have prompted a move toward renewables, as have slowing economic growth and a gradual shift in the Chinese economy away from heavy manufacturing and toward consumer industries. The addition of domestic capacity, though large on paper, does not mean there will be growth in coal consumption. The current coal plants are operating far below capacity because demand for coal-generated power has slowed considerably.



How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps
Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, and that carbon emissions should be scaled back. But fewer are sure that it will harm them personally.

March 21, 2017
Over all, Chinese companies are behind 340,000 to 386,000 megawatts of planned coal power expansion worldwide, Urgewald estimated. A typical coal plant has a capacity of about 500 megawatts and burns 1.4 million tons of coal each year, enough to power almost 300,000 homes.

Read the rest here

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/climate/china-energy-companies-coal-plants-cl...

But they are still building them. There has to be a reason for that.

DonDeeHippy wrote on Jun 10^th, 2018 at 12:12pm:



Hm China - The savour of the Paris Agreement - incompetent; corrupt?

Japan?


I think you may be off your head.

Practical reality will sink stupid Greeny impracticality as time goes on and the cost of renewable rubbish secondary power rises dramatically and the inevitable blackouts occur.

Gas is already in short supply and so assuming primary gas power is simplistic. Primary Hydro power is good but is limited by suitable dam locations.

Relying on the secondary power wind and solar is simplistic as blackouts are inevitable as energy storage is nowhere big enough to act as a temporary "primary supply".

Already Tomago aluminium smelter is in doubt if Liddell coal primary power is "replaced" with spasmodic unreliable secondary wind and solar. If an aluminium smelter loses power then a catastrophic solidification of molten aluminium occurs.

The mad as cut snakes extremist Greenies' "solution" is to close down all industry in Australia!!!!!!


Isogo coal-fired power plant in Japan



New coal-fired power in Australia: a case of politics before practicality?
By Heidi Vella 27 FEBRUARY 2018 ANALYSIS

Prior to last year’s local elections in Queensland, Australia last year, it was reported that a study outlining the viability of a new HELE coal-fired power plant was buried by the incumbent government, because, the opposition party argues, it didn’t fit their election agenda. The furore highlights the political baggage now attached to new coal power in Australia,; but could ideology hinder common- sense decision-making around the growing need to provide affordable and reliable energy?

A few weeks prior to polling day in Queensland in November 2017, the opposition party accused the incumbent Labor Government of purposely withholding an Energy Department-commissioned report into the building of a new high-efficiency / low-emission (HELE) coal-fired power plant in the state.

The leaked report, according to local media, identified a range of risk factors, including high carbon emissions and the possibility the asset could become stranded, but also stated that the plant could provide a large-scale source of storable, reliable and diversified energy in Queensland.

State Energy Minister Mark Bailey dismissed the report, saying it ‘lacked basic considerations and was not taken seriously’.


During the election campaign, which was eventually re-won by the Labor party, the LNP opposition party vowed to champion a new 800MW ‘ultra-supercritical’ coal-fired power station to be built by private investors.

The party said it could help drive down electricity prices – Australia is currently plagued by high energy prices that rose by almost 11% during 2017 – and shore-up supply in the north.

Mixed opinions on coal power
“Coal-fired power is politically sensitive in Australia because it involves balancing the environmental, affordability and reliability trilemma; with coal, you essentially get cheap, reliable power but at an environmental cost,” says Matt Rennie, an energy sector specialist at EY Australia.

According to the government, Australia has the fourth-largest share of coal reserves in the world, which makes coal-fired power more economically viable in Australia and why it currently produces around 63% of total electricity generation nationally, with that figure reaching 80%-90% in some states.

“Australia has the fourth-largest share of coal reserves in the world.”
Last year, a similar situation to that in Queensland unravelled in the neighbouring state of New South Wales, with some political parties pushing the Premier to use public funds to build a new coal-fired power plant, which she opposed.

There are clearly mixed opinions about whether more coal-fired power plants are the answer to Australia’s ongoing energy woes.

ABC news reported that a former power company executive, Chris Walker, said the LNP’s plans in Queensland were akin to an idea conceived by “guys in a bar who have had too much to drink”.

Whereas, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull touted the project as a candidate for federal funding via the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.

However, a Lowy Institute survey of 1,202 adults last year found 81% of respondents wanted policymakers to focus on clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, even if it costs more to ensure grid reliability.

Australia’s energy problem
Australians, both in and out of politics, may be keen to reduce their reliance on coal, but the complexities of the country’s energy market make it a hard move.

“There are some difficult choices ahead due to the economics of power generation in Australia,” says Rennie.

“When coal plants come to the end of their useful life, is it realistic for them to be replaced by renewables, or do we look to cleaner forms of coal [such as HELE and carbon capture] as an easy way to bring on large amount of new capacity?”

The market is, in fact, backing renewables, with more than 35 projects under construction during 2017. However, the produced energy is coming to the market in the $70-$80 a MWh range, according to Rennie, which is significantly higher than the $20MWh or even $50MWh seen in other countries.


Read the inevitability of more coal for decades here

https://www.power-technology.com/features/new-coal-fired-power-australia-case-po...

The silly old troll is STILL hanging around desperately trying to get some attention. What a fool. Wonder if he/she is not the full quid like DDH ?

An amazing election winning initiative hangs tantalizingly in front of the Govt - bung on the coal and don't delay and immediately reduce power prices and keep industry in Australia so long as the hostile unions are controlled.

Hydro is nice but dam loactions are limited.

Cut renewable rubbish subsidies and the uneconomical renewable rubbish will disappear overnite.

It is basically and technically IMPOSSIBLE to supply Australia's energy from erratic unreliable renewable rubbish.

Compared to coal generators the output of renewable rubbish is laughably small and energy storage options are far too small to be of any use during overcast and windless days - just ask high power cost SA!!!

And silly Bulldust Billy is pledging to devastate our power supply with 50% renewable rubbish - what an election loser!!!!


Port Waratah export coal loader




Electric shock therapy is the only cure for mindlessness
AMM 25/06/2018

Government’s dogged opposition to modern, clean coal fired power generators is a foolish and fraudulent ideology foisted on the nation.

They argue irrationally for renewables that can only at best be supplementary. Is it from drinking the UN Kool-Aid? Is it a misguided concept of playing to the shrill Greens? Or is it simply Malcolm Turnbull’s personal quest for eternal adulation from few nincompoops?

Is it good governance for other nations to burn Australian coal for commercial advantage—to attract Australian manufacturers to move off shore to compete in a global market? Will the last one out please turn off the lights!

Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is responding to the ­Coalition unrest by launching a new charm offensive to quell government concerns about the impact of his signature policy.



Coalition elders fire up for coal-fired power, seek to end infighting
Source: News Corp

Coalition elder statesmen are ­urging the government to facilitate the entry of new coal-fired power stations alongside the ­national energy guarantee to drive down electricity prices and ­secure reliability as they seek to avoid a new round of government infighting.

Howard government resources minister Ian Macfarlane yesterday urged the Coalition to consider covering the commercial and carbon risks for any private sector investment in a new clean-coal-fired power station and insisted the major energy users be compensated for their role in ensuring reliability of supply under the ­energy guarantee.

Former Nationals senator Ron Boswell — who met with party colleagues in Canberra on Friday — is also calling for a new policy to complement the energy guarantee, arguing in favour of an open tender for new supply through a power purchasing agreement over the next two decades. He predicts coal will easily emerge as the most competitive.

The intervention in the debate came as Nationals MPs met yesterday at Parliament House in Canberra amid mounting concern that internal divisions on the energy guarantee could distract from the government’s Senate victory last week after it passed its $144 billion personal income tax package. Some MPs are now strongly pushing for a special deal behind the scenes, arguing in favour of incentives to drive investment in coal-fired power as the best way of minimising the internal opposition to the energy guarantee.

Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is responding to the ­Coalition unrest by launching a new charm offensive to quell government concerns about the impact of his signature policy. Under the initiative, business and industry heads will speak to the ­Coalition backbench to outline the benefits of the energy guarantee.

Speakers to the Coalition backbench energy committee tomorrow morning will include BlueScope chief executive Mark Vasella; BHP chief commercial ­officer Arnoud Balhuizen; Minerals Council of Australia chair Vanessa Guthrie; Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott; Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox; and National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simpson.

Writing in The Australian today, Mr Frydenberg appeals to his Coalition colleagues to heed the message from business leaders to end the 10-year impasse on ­energy and climate policy.

“If we can’t listen to them now, after a decade of missteps in ­energy policy, then when?” Mr Frydenberg asks. “People are simply sick and tired of the hyper-partisanship and mistruths that have characterised this debate. Unless we effectively manage the inevitable transition to a cleaner energy future, we will not deliver the lowest cost market-based outcomes that are in the interests of consumers. This is why the NEG is so important and should be supported.”

Chair of the Coalition’s backbench committee on energy policy, Craig Kelly, responded by telling The Australian: “We’re ­always interested in what they have to say. However, it’s surprising that some of these industry groups might have taken a position on the national energy guarantee when the final details are yet to be released.”




This enlightening exposure of renewable rubbish insanity continues overleaf

Is coal about to re-enter the room as common sense is starting to prevail that renewable rubbish can never supply Australia's energy unless ALL industry in Australia is closed down - and that is what the extremist Greenies want to happen.



Energy minister would welcome new coal-fired power plant. Josh Frydenberg sends the positive signal about coal before Tuesday’s internal government deliberations
Katharine Murphy Political editor Tue 26 Jun 2018 04.00 AEST Last modified on Tue 26 Jun 2018 04.01 AEST


Energy minister Josh Frydenberg says he would welcome a new coal-fired power plant being built in Australia. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP

Energy minister Josh Frydenberg has declared he would welcome the construction of a new coal-fired power plant in Australia ahead of meetings on Tuesday where internal critics of his electricity plan are expected to voice their objections.

Frydenberg used an interview with News Corp to send the positive signal about coal before Tuesday’s internal deliberations, with some Nationals still on the war path about the government either subsidising new coal plants or bankrolling the refurbishment of existing assets.

While economic modelling associated with the national energy guarantee assumes there will be no new coal built under the policy, Frydenberg said: “I would welcome a new coal-fired power station for our country because it supplies reliable baseload power and it has served us well in the past and will continue to serve us well in the future.”

Frydenberg said the national energy guarantee would prolong the operating life of the existing coal fleet – an eventuality which some of the state and territory governments, which will ultimately make or break the policy, profoundly object to.

“We have twenty coal-fired power stations in Australia today with an average life of 27 years,” the federal energy minister said. “While they may not live forever, they will certainly live longer than that 27 years and the Neg will provide that level of stability for the investors and the owners of those assets.”

He said under the guarantee, “the reliability that coal provides the system will be valued and [coal is] much more likely to be staying in the system under the Neg than not”.

In order to bolster the case for the Neg, and keep a lid on the internal complaints from restive conservatives, Frydenberg has organised a delegation of business leaders to address a special meeting of the Coalition backbench committee on energy and the environment early on Tuesday morning, before the regular gathering of the Coalition party room.

The most outspoken critics of the policy are the former prime minister Tony Abbott and the chairman of the backbench energy and environment committee Craig Kelly. Nationals, who met separately on Monday, are divided on the policy.

Nationals MP Mark Coulton told Guardian Australia before Tuesday’s discussion the Neg was “heading in the right direction” but he said the government needed to be highly attentive to safeguarding reliability and power price reductions.

“I think we are on the right track but we have to look after affordability and reliability,” Coulton said. “Wherever this lands I’m concerned to make sure my oldies [in his electorate of Parkes] can still afford to run their air conditioners.”

He said of his colleagues there were different views about the Neg, but he said the junior Coalition partner had not split into “camps”.

Fellow National John “Wacka” Williams said he believed the Neg was “a step to defeat an emissions trading scheme or a carbon tax”.



“I think the government should provide a fund to assist with that process,” Broad said.

Dissidents have been escalating their criticisms about the Neg over the past fortnight because the current sitting is their last chance to try to scuttle the policy, or lock Frydenberg into a no-compromise posture, before a make-or-break meeting of state and territory energy ministers in early August.

Any state or territory could veto the Neg when the Coag energy council meets in August. The ACT has warned it will be very difficult to sign up if Frydenberg is not in a position to offer any compromises.

Tuesday’s backbench committee meeting will be attended by representatives of the Business Council of Australia, the Minerals Council of Australia, BHP, the National Farmers Federation and the Ai Group – groups that are all broadly supportive of the government’s energy policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/26/energy-minister-would-wel...

Gosh that normally ignored ridiculous troll drongo is STILL hanging around trying to get some attention with silly off topic spamming. Definitely not the full quid.

Must be so in awe of my superior ability he/she is stalking me.