If AEMO and CSIRO have used LCOE as methodology the results are invalid. Refer to the author's first paragraph. As my retail bills are going up, renewables are increasing the cost of electricity. There is no wriggle room in that nor any excuse.

The greens are full of it! Their hidden agenda is to make energy too dear for industry. And that's why they back renewables and not carbon free dispatchable base load nuclear! That's less polluting than solar panels! And as MSR thorium at least 8 times cheaper as the bare minimum
Alan B.

WTF?

Chuckles makes a big call claiming that CSIRO results are invalid and refers us back to the author.

The author suggests that the LCOE metric is invalid for use with renewables and Chuckles thinks that this invalidates CSIRO findings.

Yet the CSIRO in its GenCost 2021-22 Final Report states: “The LCOE is estimated on a common basis for all technologies with one exception. An additional process is undertaken to calculate the integration costs of variable renewables.”

CSIRO states: “LCOE is a simple screening tool for quickly determining the relative competitiveness of electricity generation technologies. It is not a substitute for detailed project cashflow analysis or electricity system modelling which both provide more realistic representations of electricity generation project operational costs and performance.

CSIRO identifies a number of problems with using the LCOE such as “LCOE does not take account of the additional costs associated with each technology and in particular the integration costs of variable renewable electricity generation technologies.”

The CSIRO goes into length about how it address these issues – maybe this is the transparency that the author seeks?

As well as that “Modelling studies such as AEMO’s Integrated System Plan do not require or use LCOE data.”

A simplistic and outdated use of the LCOE metric does not advance a discussion about energy much at all – best to stick with information from the CSIRO and Chuckles’ preferred reference -the AEMO,

Small Modular reactors can be placed where needed
Alan B,
I have long said that if they can power high tech floating communities of 7000 plus or, as the Russians have been doing for yonks, powering remote communities with ex nuclear aircraft carriers then we can do it here.
Small nuclear (your Thorium ?) power plants that can be controlled in emergencies rather than large plants that can not be controlled i.e. Chernobyl & Fukushima.
Are the stumbling blocks here the politicians or the un-cooperating voters who want everything for nothing ?

The only way we shall EVER become a sustainable society is when global population becomes sustainable.
And that is NEVER likely to happen. Humanity is breeding itself out of existence.

Humanity is breeding itself out of existence.
ateday,
Yes, because of so many hypocritical exploiter do-gooders who've had it too good for too long !