Renew Economy today stated: "The march of change on Australia’s main grids grinds on, with the nation’s rapidly growing fleet of big batteries discharging more energy into the National Electricity Market in November than peaking gas generators."

Further: "It should be no surprise, given the falling costs of battery storage and the fact that these installations are highly flexible and can play in numerous different markets and deliver even more services. The cost of gas generation, and gas turbines, on the other hand has soared in recent years."

Also: "The few peaking gas plants that are being built are heavily subsidised, or paid for by governments, including Snowy Hydro’s Hunter gas generator, and the newly announced Brigalow gas peaker in Queensland, which is backed by the state utility CS Energy and underwritten to protect it from low wholesale prices."

Hopefully some of these good news stories about renewables will help alleviate some of the fear that the renewable alarmists are generating for themselves.

WTF,

I don't know if you are Chris Bowen in real life; you work for Chris Bowen, or you have Obsessive-compulsive disorder. I doubt that you are a big-money grifter heavily investing in the renewables scam.

Is there anything else that you are interested in, apart from this tedious renewables rot that every country except Australia has woken up to?

You should widen your horizons, take it easy, because your posts will not make an iota of difference to the success or failure of Albanese Labor's so-far total f… up of our economy and our security, by fiddling with renewable energy.

Neither will anything I say in opposition to you have any effect. We have no say. Neither the Labor Party nor what's left of the Coalition give a tinker’ curse what we think.

WTF?

mhaze why do you care so much about who I am? I do know that a while back you were obsessing about a poster who went by the name of Ant (or something like that) and banged on about that person being me. You only stopped when I pointed out your obsessive behaviour.

Chis Bowen and Albanese - you seem to want to bring the conversation back to politics. I imagine that is because it is hard to argue against actual facts and easy to try and polarise a discussion by introducing politics.

If you want to talk about particular politics then start your own conversation about it.

I'll stick with highlighting the tremendous strides that are taking shape in the technology of renewable energy.

I understand that some people will feel conflicted about how rapid some of these are occurring. I gave the example of Prometheus Energy the other day who went from an uneconomical technique to a real profitable alternative in a matter of years.

If that's "tedious renewables rot" then that's what I'll stick with.

WTF?

I do apologise, mhaze, I was responding to ttbn and at the time of writing and made the mistake of identifying you as the commentor.

WTF

Obsessions always take you over and can make you do silly things.

I don't know what mhaze would think about being confused with me, but it gave me a good laugh.

I've never heard of anyone calling himself “Ant”; check with mhaze.

Neither do I care about who you are. Mhaze, again?

It's your obsessive drivel about hoaxes and scams that is somewhat irritating - and pointless.

“Back to politics”. It's all about politics, son. And ideology.

But, who am I to try to help someone who can't tell the difference between ‘ttbn’ and ‘mhaze’. They are not remotely alike. But I suppose anyone who puts his own moniker at the top of his posts instead of that of the person he (thinks) he is addressing, has to be somewhat "different" from other people.