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Leap of faith on the National Electricity Market required : Comments

By Mark Christensen, published 20/2/2017

While the chaos has political meddling written all over it, its roots are actually technical. That is, the NEM was not designed to be a vehicle for appeasing our environmental conscience.

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Alan B's private enterprise model seems to be for foreign private investors to have our energy security by the throat. Like our armed services, we need to keep the ownership, operation and control of our energy production and supply in the hands of the democratically accountable public sector. Mr Greed has already given us a pig's breakfast at exorbitant cost to the consumer, and tied to "cooperative endeavour enterprises" we can expect more of the same.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 20 February 2017 7:51:21 PM
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I don't know much money any private company has made out of southern power, at present I'd say sweet stud all, apart from the scam merchants with windmills.

Up here in Queensland it was that lefty "B" Beattie that ripped off consumers, & stuffed the system by draining it of funds.

He was ripping a quarter of a billion dollars a year in "special dividends" out of the government owned system to try to cover his ridiculous spending.

All these lefty governments are the same. Infected with the drunken sailor spending syndrome, & with too many favours to return.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 20 February 2017 7:53:30 PM
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For advice on going the nuclear power route from people who really know what they're talking about we should recruit and fly to Australia a cross-section of the residents of Fukushima. The Japanese taxpayers have been stuck with the tab for Fukushima so, forewarned, we need to require of wannabe suppliers of nuclear power a fully audited statement of how they intend to fund and provide adequate public risk insurance.

Then let's proceed with credible technologies.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 20 February 2017 8:08:33 PM
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Build that dam in Tasmania. You brick heads.
Posted by doog, Monday, 20 February 2017 9:23:04 PM
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Tanya Eye-Chart made it clear on Q&A that 50% solar & wind is the
firm policy and no CO2 producing station will exist.
No one asked her if she knew how it would be done.
All she spoke about was how cheap solar was becoming and how cheap our electricity bills will be.

Re Fukashima, they built it on the wrong coastline.
The plate divide is close to Japan on the east.

It seems inevitable that the politicians not the engineers will decide
what we do about our electrical problem.
I think we will not get any realism into this problem until we have
a collapse of the system due to loss of control of the grid.
Then we will have to build a fleet of power stations all at once.
Will the money be able to fund it and will the state of the economy
at that time enable us the repay the debt ?
We do not seem to have a solution available to us. We are now in the
situation where we will all have to make our own arrangements.
Posted by Bazz, Monday, 20 February 2017 10:07:32 PM
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Hey baz they found out what caused the blackouts in SA. The wind power was putting that much power into the grid that the pylons turned red hot and fell over.
Posted by doog, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:45:14 PM
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