Media scary fears on nationwide electricity shortages and rising energy bills. In all political talk, news media glancing headline debate statements on coal versus renewable energy wind and solar unreliable power... solving concerns are limited to generating more electricity.

Meanwhile, I hear no discussion on tax deductions or other incentives for installing:

Australian produced insulation bats in building ceilings;

update street lights to LED light globes, reducing electricity consumption specially during winter, allowing more available electricity during evenings, cooking meals and electric heating;

after midnight, having reduced street light electricity consumption, off peek timers could charge solar batters to be used (specially during winter reduced sunlight solar generation), encouraging further purchasing of solar batteries;

install double glaze gas/vacuum insulated windows;

insulate wooden floors exposed to open air hot and cold breezes;

media commercials recommending low wattage LED globes and instead of large flat screen televisions, my 31.5 inch television uses 65-to-75 watts of electricity....

Myself having replaced 65 watt wire filament globes with 4 watt LED globes, I can't distinguish the difference in light-globe brightness.

Exampling, firmly pushing bed covering cheap to buy queen size bed quilts against window glass reduces heat loss through glass... using lower heater settings saves energy.
Same increase in efficiency with air-conditioning cool air loss through glass during hot weather.

The lack of innovation on how to reduce electricity consumption during high consumption seasons (winter and summer) from a federal government, led by a leader, Malcolm Turnbull, who began his prime minister leadership promoting innovation, has been neglecting encouraging innovation in solving future periodic electricity consumption problems, instead using useless political processing/arguing rhetoric.

News reported predicted rising electricity bills seems to me to be intentionally unavoidable. Media could spend more time on campaigning on innovative alternatives: having citizenry reducing power consumption removing reasons to why electricity bills continued to rise.

Rather than media news repeat scare warnings rolled over for a week, that electricity bills are surely rising, instead promote websites which suggest ways to lower electricity consumption without reducing comfortable lifestyles.

Reducing electricity consumption reduces bills, reduces unit cost supply and demand excuses.

Or we could just to the intelligent thing.

Stop all tax payer subsidies for all this green malarkey, stop building wasteful subsidised windmills & putting subsidised solar cells on roofs, & simply use the best technology for cheap power, coal fired.

There is no need to live in a blanket darkened tomb, when we use our best technology to produce cheap power.

There have been 400 peer reviewed scientific papers published in the last 3 years, all showing that global temperature tracks the suns activity, & not one showing it tracks atmospheric CO2. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our green ratbags started taking notice.

Thank you Hasbeen for your last sentence but Steve 101 is right. Coal & Gas will run out and they are needed in the future for manufacturing goods not wasted as they are now for energy production.
Surely the future will be to evaluate each coal generator in MWH and then when the batteries produced equal that figure, you can retire that coal generator. If we need more electricity, then we have to buy more batteries, panels and wind towers. It is purely a question of calculation. The biggest needs right now would appear to be storage of electricity. So provide subsidies for new batteries for a year or two and the public will subscribe. The public did just that about 4 years ago as they were given an offer of 44-50 cents per Kwh and they saved building a new power station. Just do that sort of thing again

I speculate very few people care about Green House CO2 gas emissions burning coal and gas. A life time of warn down curiosity kills human emotional impulse subconscious decisions to need to care: first with school work as young children coming home from school in need of distracting ADHD hyperactivities activities repressing adult information; as teenagers coming home from school wanting simple distracting entertainment, to find adults have television stations turned boring news. Teenagers hearing the same old rolled over news media concerned headline statements usually with no extra worthwhile information, other than known people movements are updated, very much the same as school work rolls over the same subjects day after day, human curiosity crushed by nothing new.

Teenagers guided to watch Neighbours rolled over relationship dramas, hopes and dreams of successful relationships, fall apart over what I could be called a lack of Homo-Sapien intellectual analysing, spoken sentences are short, narrow minded, headline statements. Teenagers associating real life to find information story lines, teenagers using remembered story line drama self-formulated judgements, feeling the anger actors maybe portraying, allowing teenager intelligence to fill in what may have been periods of boredom, creating real life felt as true scenario judgement memories distracting from education traumas controversy... traumatised by school education, dumber teenagers fuelled by alcohol and/or drugs, maybe influenced by memorised drama induced by story line judgements, being violent.

School education represses experiencing intelligent communication between individuals, leaving whatever entertainment programs to fill in the gaps using headline statements which may not be socially acceptable.

Citizenry looking for entertainment information, Media's constant reminders of political arguments over climate change policy, carbon trading, wears down any apparent human intelligent curiosity. That to simple teenager intelligence need to controversy, hearing political arguments are the real entertainment.

Any intelligent curiosity eventually stops taking any notice. That caring about global warming to most citizenry are more about taking on being politically correct battles, entertaining narrow mined intelligence by mimicking politicians arguments, yet many citizenry's crushed curiosity by rolled over media updates, acting too busy to care, don't care to hear from individuals headline statements “global warming”, quickly defaulting to ignoring individuals opinions as would have been done listening to media news sudden global warming news update introductions.

As long as citizenry ignore climate charge continues, few people are going to think of investing their money in home insulation for the sake of saving the planet.

Solar panels on roof tops are all about saving money on electricity bills during low interest rate periods, taking advantage of money back subsides. That unless citizenry are persuaded installing insulation bats etc, saves money over a period, climate change warnings aren't going to do anything.

Come home from work, turning on environment temperature devices burning green house CO2 producing coal, not giving media scare global warming a second thought. My evidence are homes people buy: large sliding glass doors and large window views; open plan living; to little consideration for outdoor/indoor temperature insulation. No government regulation planning on increasing building insulation.

Citizenry consuming energy without considering hourly costs, is like buy now pay latter putting on bank card credit, worrying about energy bills when bills arrive in the mail. That all the maths carried out at school never gets a thought.

Increased population, increasing buildings, increased air-conditioning... increased employment cooking food processing, plans to export to other countries large quantities of processed foods. By the time the next electricity power station is built, another electricity generation power station will be needed.

Media awareness of electric energy fake political discussion distractions I predict are set to go on forever. Suggesting media global warming fears are used to promote political party policy difference within fake democracy political parties, that politicians don't really care about global warming, merely using global warming fears as a political justification tool.

Global warming cuts off citizenry judging political parties are paid to do nothing, two party arguing in media on global warming importance, everything ease in need of change in the need of repair, media are the bag man distraction between government coffers (treasury) and politicians well rewarded incomes, whom media aid politicians ignoring doing anything constructive.

Recent media focus on fake news stories, governments blaming power companies turning coal fuelled power stations off years ahead of planned dates. I suggest solar panels and wind power generation available power usage was the real reasons coal fired power generation was turned off. That blaming power companies was more acceptable to governments, blaming energy companies for lost employment and increasing electricity bills.

Power generation companies would have had long term fixed priced coal supply contracts ensuring profits, the use of expensive cost to produce coal burning electricity could be calculated cost effective cheaper to consume day time solar energy supplies. Turning Hazelwood power station off had more to do with coal powered electricity was no longer required. Which is being proven true by on coming winter months no (none that I know of) media fear winter season warnings of electricity blackouts.

Constant establishment rolled over returning stories, Apocalypse is coming bible examples which often fail to materialise, summer time fears of blackouts, I speculate aren't going to happen. South Australia late summer blackout was due to a rare summer hot weather on February 8 lazy planning and on another occasion, wind storm blowing towers over.

Poorly educated to believe everything from media public, politicians always got an excuse for everything that goes wrong, transparent media spin promotes open democracy. Next time, planned switching off selective items may have solved one shortage of electric power problem.

Mainstream media under establishment corporate/government spin doctors would rather roll-over world threat terrorism stories and political leader speeches: Lindt Cafe; ISIS; Donald Trump inner circle White House embarrassments; road kill, accident/murder fear stories; drug mules and/or drug Jackasses...