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Australia Archive
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Sydney playing risky and costly metropoly games amid oil price fears (part 1)
Posted on October 7, 2018 | No CommentsSydney must be the only city in the world which closes its most modern heavy rail tunnel, 12.5 kms, designed for its ubiquitous double deckers and used by long distance […] -
Victoria brown coal power plant lost 1,600 MW over 4 hrs
Posted on August 4, 2018 | No CommentsWho can give a National Energy Guarantee? A better energy future for Australia https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/better-energy-future-australia Something must have happened at a brown coal fired power plant in Victoria, on 2 August […] -
Australia is exporting itself gas poor, plans LNG import terminals
Posted on July 25, 2018 | No Comments3 complacent governments (Howard, Rudd/Gillard, Abbott) released 3 flawed Energy White Papers (2004, 2012 and 2015) which have promoted and facilitated massive LNG export projects on Australia’s West, North and […] -
Sydney go on your rooftops and save power for 3 million new immigrants
Posted on July 20, 2018 | No CommentsThe latest report “Integrated System Plan” of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) assumes that power consumption on Australia’s East Coast will stay rather flat despite government engineered immigration resulting […] -
Update on Australian oil import vulnerability May 2018
Posted on May 10, 2018 | No CommentsAs the US has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and tensions increase between Israel and Iran there can be no doubt that this will impact on oil supplies. Fig […] -
NSW fuel consumption and high immigration not compatible with CO2 reduction pathways
Posted on April 30, 2018 | No CommentsOn 12/4/2018 a briefing session of the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) on recently released planning documents https://www.greater.sydney/greater-sydney-region-plan took place in the Parramatta Novotel. According to the GSC establishment Act 2015 […] -
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 2)
Posted on March 16, 2018 | No CommentsPart 2 Eraring, Mt Piper, Vales Pt Introduction: The NSW government is selling Snowy Hydro to the Federal Government, thereby demonstrating beyond doubt that it is abrogating its duty of […] -
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 1)
Posted on March 14, 2018 | No Comments14/3/2018 Part 1 Bayswater and Liddell power plants Introduction The Australian public has no idea how tight Australia’s power generation is in hot summers. A recent 4 corners program on population […] -
Australia’s east coast solar generation is replacing coal by only 2% in late summer
Posted on March 11, 2018 | No CommentsThis is an analysis of late summer. Data are taken from Open NEM: http://opennem.org.au/# The graphs in this post are a bit different from those on the above website Fig […] -
Will Australia have a strategic oil reserve before it is too late? (part 2)
Posted on February 22, 2018 | No CommentsIn part 1 we talked about what action the government is taking to bring Australia back to the IEA 90 days oil stock requirement. What was done so far This […]