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Mystery: Australians invest billions in free wind and solar, but prices rise...

By Jo Nova Last winter’s debacle in Australia could be repeated this year, but at even higher prices. Despite adding more cheap renewables per person than nearly anywhere on Earth, for some...

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In an emergency, we need coal

So it’s a new record. In the 20 years since the National Energy Market formed it has never operated on such a vapor thin margin. Only a few days ago Paul McArdle at WattClarity thought a mere 15%...

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In perfect hell for grid managers, Global Warming causes coldest start to...

The climate experts didn’t warn us we’d need more electricity for winter in Australia. If only carbon dioxide make winter nights warmer, Australians wouldn’t have been using up stockpiles of coal and...

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South Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours...

By Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people...

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Green Australia: where Industry is on Edge, the grid “precarious” and...

By Jo Nova The land that is the Renewable Crash Test Dummy is holding its breath This time last year, the Australian energy market turned into a kind of Hunger Games spectacle with daily feeding-fest...

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Don’t look now: Accounting trick destroys national economy

By Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO...

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Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming

  By Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the...

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Blackouts are coming: Australian grid so fragile, expensive, cement giant...

Image by Vicente Godoy from Pixabay By Jo Nova We can’t even run a cement factory all day anymore Get your candles for summer! Unlike the last three years the Australian national grid won’t be rescued...

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$160,000 worth of wind and solar power with batteries can’t power two homes...

By Jo Nova Let’s run an experiment on a whole nation that we can’t even do easily on a single home Photo | Daily Sceptic, Imaging scaling this up for a country? The Daily Sceptic has the story of an...

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New York narrowly missed a disaster last Christmas Eve: gas pipes froze and...

By Jo Nova Our cities are more fragile than we imagine During the winter storm called “Elliott” last Christmas, gas pipes came close to freezing in New York. The gas shortages are not just deadly...

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Germany: You will own a car and a heater but you can’t use them

By Jo Nova Oh the irony — Green heat pumps and EV’s will need to be curtailed on a Green Grid We’re watching the real time collapse of parts of the “Climate Industry” in on itself. The left eats its...

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Renewable South Australia Islanded, flying by the seat of their pants, afraid...

By Jo Nova The biggest blackout has hit South Australia since the statewide crash of 2016. It’s due to a weather calamity, but the renewables state is struggling to keep the frequency stable for a...

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Just as power grids struggle, the AI and EV electricity monsters turn up for...

By Jo Nova As Western grids are teetering, people are suddenly realizing demand for electricity is about to skyrocket Unstoppable demands are about to meet immovable rocks. A year ago the grid...

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