Pauliar,

Once again you have posted you have exposed your idiocy. Firstly gauging is measuring and clearly, you meant gouging. Twit.

Secondly, gouging means that someone is charging a massive profit in a shortage which is not the case.

Backup gas generators are inefficient and very expensive to run, but they can provide lots of energy very quickly to prevent a network collapse. The costs of running these backup generators can cost between $500 to $1000 per MWhr. So when the fwit Labor government put a cap of $300 these idiots were asking the owners of these generators to contribute $ms of power at way below cost.

Even an moron like you should be able to work out why they didn't.

What's happening is a well-known consequence of an over-reliance on renewables that has been pursued by the state governments. Labor's policies are only going to further increase costs with the added expense of new lines (that receive a guaranteed payment) and the loss of low-cost coal plants.

Kudos Shadow Minister.