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Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia (yahoo.com)
Slashdot reader sycodon quotes an article from AFR:
Turmoil in South Australia's heavily wind-reliant electricity market has forced the state government to plead with the owner of a mothballed gas-fired power station to turn it back on. The emergency measures are needed to ease punishing costs for South Australian industry as National Electricity Market prices in the state have frequently surged above $1000 a megawatt hour this month and at one point on Tuesday hit the $14,000/MWh maximum price...
"A planned outage of the Heywood Interconnector to Victoria, coupled with higher than expected gas prices and severe weather conditions have contributed to large-scale price volatility in the energy spot market in recent days," said South Australia's energy minister, Tom Koutsantonis. The Australian Associated Press adds that "The state Labor government has invested heavily in wind and solar energy at the expense of baseload power, a move critics say has left the state exposed during poor weather. Mr. Koutsantonis has described the energy volatility as a failure of the national energy market because a lack of interconnection means South Australia often produces more renewable power than it can sell into the grid. But opposition spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan said the government had been too hasty to invest in renewables."
"A planned outage of the Heywood Interconnector to Victoria, coupled with higher than expected gas prices and severe weather conditions have contributed to large-scale price volatility in the energy spot market in recent days," said South Australia's energy minister, Tom Koutsantonis. The Australian Associated Press adds that "The state Labor government has invested heavily in wind and solar energy at the expense of baseload power, a move critics say has left the state exposed during poor weather. Mr. Koutsantonis has described the energy volatility as a failure of the national energy market because a lack of interconnection means South Australia often produces more renewable power than it can sell into the grid. But opposition spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan said the government had been too hasty to invest in renewables."
Fuck you, cunt.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Cheap energy encourages wasteful usage. Americans don't care what it costs to power their 50 inch TVs, they'll pollute the environment if that's what it takes. Energy should be expensive, that's what it takes to make people use less. Cheap energy is a problem, not a solution.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Of course there was! All this government-funded eco-insanity is predicated on the convenient fiction of CO2 being evil and causing the imminent destruction of the habitability of the planet. Without that, it all falls apart. We're seeing the whole thing start to unravel now due to reality reasserting itself over narrative and it ain't gonna be pretty.
But the boss is female, Liberal and gay. Isn't that enough to be a provincial premier? Don't you know that any criticism of her policies makes you a misogynist, intolerant and homophobic?