Post by NFA on Nov 22, 2023 7:09:14 GMT 8
Re: Once-in-a-decade threat
The Editor
The Cairns Post
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is a not-for-profit company created by the federal government to manage Australia’s energy supply systems.
The prosperity of any nation depends on cheap and reliable energy: expensive and increasingly unreliable energy is why we have a cost-of-living crisis.
AEMO has too few engineers and too many ideologues and it has abjectly failed to correctly advise governments of the need for cheap and reliable electricity generation.
Australia has always had hot summers; searching the National Library’s historic newspapers confirms that fact, (https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers).
Planning for sufficient electricity generation for hot summers is a core responsibility of AEMO but it has failed so badly that it’s now warning of blackouts, (Once-in-a-decade threat, 22/11).
Government policies, including Big Australia immigration, promoting EVs, and removing gas stoves and water heaters, have all increased electricity demand.
Government Net Zero policies that squeeze cheap and reliable hydrocarbon-fuelled generators out and expensive and unreliable wind and solar in have reduced supply.
Blackouts and further increases in energy costs and everything else are now guaranteed – all brought to you by the technologically-ignorant ideologues of the Labor/Liberal twins.
(184 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Cairns Post
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is a not-for-profit company created by the federal government to manage Australia’s energy supply systems.
The prosperity of any nation depends on cheap and reliable energy: expensive and increasingly unreliable energy is why we have a cost-of-living crisis.
AEMO has too few engineers and too many ideologues and it has abjectly failed to correctly advise governments of the need for cheap and reliable electricity generation.
Australia has always had hot summers; searching the National Library’s historic newspapers confirms that fact, (https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers).
Planning for sufficient electricity generation for hot summers is a core responsibility of AEMO but it has failed so badly that it’s now warning of blackouts, (Once-in-a-decade threat, 22/11).
Government policies, including Big Australia immigration, promoting EVs, and removing gas stoves and water heaters, have all increased electricity demand.
Government Net Zero policies that squeeze cheap and reliable hydrocarbon-fuelled generators out and expensive and unreliable wind and solar in have reduced supply.
Blackouts and further increases in energy costs and everything else are now guaranteed – all brought to you by the technologically-ignorant ideologues of the Labor/Liberal twins.
(184 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga