Yesterday, 22 Jan 2019, total power demand on Australia’s East Coast reached – just like 5 days earlier – the 35 GW mark. Fig 1: Power generation by source for 5 East…
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NSW power imports in January 2019 heatwave exceed 2 GW, drive up electricity prices
Maximum demand for electricity increased from 9,500 MW on 13 Jan 2019 (16:00) to a whopping 14,000 MW on 17 Jan 2019 (17:30). Fig 1: Heatwave pushing up power demand Pic 2:…
Sydney playing risky and costly metropoly games amid oil price fears (part 1)
Sydney 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 commuters for…
Victoria brown coal power plant lost 1,600 MW over 4 hrs
Who 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 2018 in…
Australia is exporting itself gas poor, plans LNG import terminals
3 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 East Coasts….
Sydney go on your rooftops and save power for 3 million new immigrants
The 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 in a…
Update on Australian oil import vulnerability May 2018
As the US has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and tensions increase between Israel and Iran there can be no doubt that this will impact on oil supplies.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 1: Iran’s…
NSW fuel consumption and high immigration not compatible with CO2 reduction pathways
On 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 No 56…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 2)
Part 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 care to…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 1)
14/3/2018 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 growth driven…