Labor with one eye over it's shoulder at it's heavy reliance on the Labor Left and the Greens is hellbent on the 50% Renewable Energy target and let the devil take tomorrow

Which, if Bill Shorten becomes Prime Minister the devil surely will

The recent heavy blasts of hot weather has shown just how feeble our national energy grid is

200,000 homes fell over in Victoria, one of, if not the most dependant State on renewable energy

Lefty critics were quick to blame aging Coal Energy areas for the shortfall

That is correct but it doesn't hold up if you put it under the magnifying glass

Labor States have been putting Coal energy to the sword for quite some time now. You can't have it both ways. If you allow older generating stations to fail and don't replace them with modern more efficient facilities then they will surely let you down when you require them to perform like Phar Lap

There will come the time..inevitable under Shorten when the national electricity  network will fold like a tent

Just hope all the lefties and greenies don't whinge when they have to live like the early settlers

Windmills and solar panels can't cut it, when the demand goes up a fraction

The national Energy market is in total chaos with coal companies unwilling to invest in a very uncertain future under Labor

Shorten will likely make his 50% but there will be many times in the long hot summer when we are sitting by candlelight and having cold showers

red baron wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 1:37pm:

New coal plants are more expensive than renewable energy. We passed that tipping point a few years ago.

The only reason old coal energy may appear cheap is the old energy generation facilities have depreciated long ago. A new coal-fired plant would be significantly more expensive. That's ignoring the added cost of cleaning up the emissions to modern standards and the possibility that such a plant cannot get financed at all.

As for reliability, it was the coal plants that failed, not the renewable generators.

If there's any failing on renewable energy, it's not the reliability. It's the storage of excess energy. Sometimes solar generates so much energy that surplus energy is simply lost. Adding more batteries to the grid can do a lot to mitigate this. It would have the side benefit of smoothing out supply and reducing peak prices.

But one thing is clear. Coal is not the answer. It is a moribund technology with its best days behind it.

Six Years and 14 energy policy variations and still we have no idea,  well apart from sky rocketing prices on account of this government,  that's the only certainty

There's not enough renewable energy !! If we had enough solar then the load imposed by the air-conditioners during the day would not be a problem because solar PV produces maximum power when there is maximum demand from air conditioners. It's a no-brainer !

Why are aussies so thick ?

Bam wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 2:28pm:



Does that include the attendant battery back up? Figures would be nice; not just bland assertions.

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 11:11pm:

The trick with solar is to put some of the panels on west-facing rooftops to catch the afternoon sun. That's the time of the day when demand peaks.

Its time wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2019 at 7:26pm:

You love your tax subsidy...

Its time wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2019 at 8:17pm:



Wow. Even St Paul of Keating never called dividend imputation a subsidy.