Comments starting with Qld (grid “strongman” now) and during an eastern wind drought. Generation by Nemwatch – Price and Demand from AEMO. For bigger Nemwatch chart QLD demand 6,042MW with generation 6,959MW running a modest surplus in view all grids need some spinning reserve. NSW demand 8,306MW with generation 7,686MW running a surprising deficit. Must … Continue reading First day post Hazelwood – Tassie Hydro props up Eastern electricity grid→
Noticed this today on the way to morning peak demand – see the spike in all States at about 6am. The Wind Energy site shows a wind drought from yesterday midday. NemWatch. Easily understandable how low wind in South Australia can lead to price spikes when demand is high. But in the case of Vic, … Continue reading Simultaneous electricity price spike in all States→
About time somebody got pinged considering claims made by renewable energy advocates over more than a decade. At a time when Hydro is saddled with the Basslink failure – I bet behind scenes unprintable. Momentum Energy ads falsely claimed power generated ‘from thin air and fresh water’, ACCC rules Check the brilliant little NemWatch to … Continue reading Tasmanian Government fined $54K by ACCC for false advertising renewable energy→
Thanks to Peter Bobroff from the grid.publicknowledge.com.au site for these daily data which reveal much. The last day of Basslink transmissions was 20 Dec 2015. It is fascinating that the cable failed a few days after exports were started. What was the rationale behind the decision to sharply increase Hydro production 16-17th December to export … Continue reading Tasmanian electricity crisis explained day by day→
The pre-Christmas 2015 failure of the Basslink cable from Victoria has thrown a googly into Tasmanian electricity supply. Most of their supply is from Hydro, the last two years rain has not been stellar and storage levels are under 17% now. They have gas supplies from Gippsland and have gas fired generators. Nemwatch gives real … Continue reading Tasmanian electricity crisis rolling along→
Scanning news headlines I discovered that the fault in the BASSLINK cable has not been found yet so there will be delays to the repairs timetable requiring the Tasmanian Govt to order 200 diesel generators. Upshot is the cable repair ship has not pinned down the fault location yet. Anyway – that nudged me to … Continue reading Wind power is useless across Australia today→
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations