Tag: intermittent power

  • SA the wind-leader!

    This morning on Wednesday Nov 23 South Australia is in a wind drought. The wind-leading state is demonstrating the great green future of Australia as we pretend to transition from coal. Before sunrise SA was importing power from Victoria and drawing almost 30% of its demand from the wind, with 70% from gas, with a…

  • Let’s Lift Wind Literacy

    Reading literacy appears to be in decline and that is causing concern but spare a thought for the prevalence of “wind illiteracy.” This means lack of awareness of the wind supply, especially at the continental scale. Wind illiteracy has enabled the biggest peacetime policy blunder in our history, that is, connecting intermittent energy sources from…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 25 Sept

    Calling Energy and Emergency Services Ministers Here is a thought, what is the plan to respond to the collapse of the electricity grid? Is there adequate backup with generators to keep hospitals and other emergency services running? Complete with fuel. And what else? What about the water and gas supplies. And everything else like lifts,…

  • Not enough “oats” in the European power supply?

    Everyone knows the sad story about the farmer who decided to save some money by reducing the ration of oats for his horse. He started with a reduction of 10% and it didn’t seem to matter so he cut another 10% and then another. He was saving money hand over fist but then the animal…

  • Our biggest peacetime policy blunder ever

    Epic Failure of Planning for the Green Energy Transition Briefing Note 22.9                September 2022 Purpose: To signal that the transition from coal cannot go any further without nuclear power. The critical issue. The combination of wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage dictate that any further loss of coal-fired power capacity will pose serious…

  • Roundup 13 Sept

    Wind at 7 this morning. Across the NEM the wind is delivering 8% of demand at 20% of capacity (the average is 29%.). Victoria and Tasmania are deep in drought with practically no wind and Tasmania is burning diesel to protect the level of water in the dams. SA is exporting power to Victoria while…