Adam Lippiatt

Those of us that chose not to have children and do the other things because we were clear eyed about this wondering who these people are we live amongst who have had children and seem disinterested in their future welfare. I have been told having children was meant to make you less selfish.

On the plus side coal tar has been used for a long time to make hydrophobic dyes which would be useful to bring back colour to bleached coral. I have fond memories of otherwise lifeless coral skeletons kitsch coloured as keepsakes in Queensland tourist shops.

I will read with interest. BUT, can personally attest that electrifying everything drops “energy” bills by a very large amount. Getting petrol / diesel out of your life is a step change for savings. My original 2007 EV has had tyres and one wheel bearing replaced. My second 2021 EV, just tyres.

… Electrification of everything is in the same vein. Energy services used to be a major cost for my household. Removing all fuel and gas has made energy services an insignificant cost now. Massive drop in emissions too.

… and Snowy 2.0 have, at the least, been sub-optimal decisions and consider why they were so (political fixes always lead to compromised outcomes?). What has worked? Declining subsidies over time to prove the premise that renewable energy was going to be cheaper upon mass adoption…

Ah, whoops. It would be good to see the spruikers’ response to round out the view given this is a 150 year asset. At $2B this would have been a good deal as not too much capital was tied up in it. Point should be taken by decision makers that the multi-technology mix for NBN …

Smart approach.

… grid discharge really is a VPP thing unless pricing is very dynamic. They could of course do this and battery software control could handle it, but they would have to reward for capacity not just energy over here. I think we have a decent balance. Aside from Amber, TOU in the NEM is no good.

Yes there is but outside of a VPP (which value is questionable) the best price you can get is 10c/kWh feeding into, effectively, the peak period (when they sell for 53c). With the FiT (before peak) being 2c, they are encouraging self storage of own solar or grid charging and not grid discharge…

We gave up a lot of potential power for a lot more energy. Strategic use of that energy will now be key to making sure the investment enables the renewables transition.

There is a chance that someone will just build another one somewhere else which is not the same as a certainty of building it here. Perhaps Murray doubts the certainty part?

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Only thing missing from the tariff is the opportunity to avoid the capacity charge (capacity market here). Not trying to avoid paying my share but never taking during the peak does save the community the highest costs of generation. Grid costs are somewhat factored into the tariff.

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Cheap is high renewables low grid congestion and expensive is high fossil and a congested grid.

Just plug the tariffs into the battery and BEV and all charging is done during the 8c period.

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Unfortunately I am in the West. What we have here is a neat time of use tariff where:
- 6 hours a day it costs 8c /kwh
- 7 hours a day it costs 19c /kwh
- 5 hours a day it costs 23c /kwh
- 6 hours a day it costs 53c /kwh
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I am a fan of their electrification of delivery services.

… there is a compelling reason to do so. Given the rate of VPP take up (low), I may not be alone in my view.

… putting negative pressure on high prices and removing grid congestion. Tariffs do the work of incentivising and disincentivising demand without the need for a VPP. If a VPP provider can do better than this people would install any missing tech and sign up. I have all of the tech but won’t until …

I am not sure I understand the point. If you have a battery and time of use tariff then the incentive is to charge when the grid has surplus cheap renewables (increasing min operational demand and market prices) and to remove demand from the grid when prices are high …

My 13 year old panels now don’t cover a fully electric household with EVs. Luckily 8c excess renewables between 0900-1500 cover what I am missing.

Gigawatts / Megawatts. If someone is mixing up basic math by three orders of magnitude then they haven’t really got anything of note to say on the subject. Ted might have gilded the lily but at least he could mount a plausible case without “gigagaffes”.

Article says it all. Correlation (with causation) for “cheap energy” with renewables. Net zero is the answer to high energy costs.

To put nuclear onto an interconnected network, cheap renewables must be curtailed. If anyone can make nuclear stack up it’s a miner with a multi decade mine life and flat demand on an isolated network. The gov’t might even make an exception with a firm proposal. But crickets on this from the miners.

Thank you for this.

Dan Teehan’s advocacy on 730 last night suggests something about the LNP’s prosecution of the case for nuclear.

2016 and what could have been. Bernie Sanders wouldn’t have alienated huge swathes of the American people.

… seem to be repowering or new powering with renewables, balanced with storage and backed up with gas for longer duration storage (but there are other non fossil options on the table). Pilbara is seeing large scale VRE projects benefiting pastoralists / native title holders to the benefit of all.

The numbers don’t stack up but if someone thinks they do for their flat 24/7 load and can wait 15 plus years for 1st power and have a 30 year project for the power then why wouldn’t they put to government a proposal? Many large mining projects have gone private on multi decade power supplies but …

26GW of solar takes up zero space with more than that amount to go. Adding inflexible baseload (nuclear) subjects existing and future cheap renewables to a switch off. Nuclear pulls the rug from under farmers wanting to diversify their land use as climate change impacts traditional income.

Aah. Without a carbon price, CCS has little value. A modest CO2 price deals all but renewables and marginal cases for nuclear out of the generation game and provides the foundation for the lowest cost CCS for hard to abate emissions. Why wouldn’t they pick the lowest cost, most realistic scenario?

… places. A great time to see this all coming to pass.