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WHERE in your article, does it blame wind energy for the high costs?
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South Australia intervenes in electricity market as prices hit $14,000MWh
Turmoil in South Australia’s heavily wind-reliant electricity market has forced the state government to plead with the owner of a mothballed gas-fired power station to turn it back on.
The emergency measures are needed to ease punishing costs for South Australian industry as National Electricity Market (NEM) prices in the state have frequently surged above $1000 a megawatt hour this month and at one point on Tuesday hit the $14,000MWh maximum price.
Complaints from business about the extreme prices – in normal times they are below $100 – prompted the state government to ask energy company ENGIE to switch its mothballed Pelican Point gas power station back on.
The extraordinary intervention – first foreshadowed in December when the government of premier Jay Weatherill hosted an energy crisis meeting – comes as electricity prices soar to near record levels across the nation.
It also comes as the wider national energy market is in upheaval. Gas prices are surging thanks to a brutal cold snap in the southeast that means electricity price relief from bringing more gas generation back into service could be limited.
Cold weather and the closure of South Australia’s Northern and Playford coal-fired power stations as wind provides an increasing share of the state’s power have combined to send NEM prices to their highest average levels since the 2007 drought.
“A planned outage of the Heywood Interconnector to Victoria, coupled with higher than expected gas prices and severe weather conditions have contributed to large-scale price volatility in the energy spot market in recent days,” Mr Koutsantonis said.
“The failure in the energy market has led the Government to ask ENGIE, the owner of Pelican Point Power Station, to run the plant for a short period, providing 239MW of additional supply into the energy market.
“It is believed the increased base-load supply from the previously mothballed plant will lead to improved system security.”*
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God are you people stupid
Aaaaaaaa NO!You didn't complete your first sentence. The comment came from Professor Michael Mann, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and most assuredly a scientist. The comment is nothing more than an offhand remark. The deniers here would like us to believe it is some concerted effort to end climate research. The comment was meant to point out that the evidence that the world is getting warmer has become blatantly obvious. Don't get pulled in to this Matthew, it is just more denier bullshit - the sort of bullshit one pulls up when one has no real basis with which to argue.
Anyone that doesn't think we should research climate and learn about the effects it can have on civilization. I have a really hard time believing that person is a scientist.
He didn't say that. Interesting that you would say he did.
I can show you opinion pieces claiming that "The Scouring of the Shire" is Tolkein warning us of the menace of Jews and non-whites. I won't post the link, as that might qualify as linking to a white supremacist website, but you can find it if you look. The point is there's a long history of fringers reinterpreting Tolkein to mean what they want it to mean.
Intelligent people, however, keep it simple, and go by what Tolkein actually said. He didn't like the industrialization of the countryside. He flat out stated that _Scouring_ was not a political allegory. If you're saying it is, you're saying Tolkein lied.
Anyone that doesn't think we should research climate and learn about the effects it can have on civilization. I have a really hard time believing that person is a scientist.
You didn't complete your first sentence. The comment came from Professor Michael Mann, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and most assuredly a scientist. The comment is nothing more than an offhand remark. The deniers here would like us to believe it is some concerted effort to end climate research. The comment was meant to point out that the evidence that the world is getting warmer has become blatantly obvious. Don't get pulled in to this Matthew, it is just more denier bullshit - the sort of bullshit one pulls up when one has no real basis with which to argue.
Wow, you read white supremacists web sites..
I am going to love every minute of Prime Minister Mays in charge.
Not sure how many of you know this, but PM Cameron's key campaign manager for re election, advisor, confidante and Remain campaign manager was Obama's man.
Messina. So for those who were looking at Cameron and scratching their heads going "this is a Conservative"? Messina is all you need to know. This is how Obama was controlling how Britain was being run.
I like to call Jim Messina Grima Wormtongue. Quite apropos.
WHERE in your article, does it blame wind energy for the high costs?
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South Australia intervenes in electricity market as prices hit $14,000MWh
Turmoil in South Australia’s heavily wind-reliant electricity market has forced the state government to plead with the owner of a mothballed gas-fired power station to turn it back on.
The emergency measures are needed to ease punishing costs for South Australian industry as National Electricity Market (NEM) prices in the state have frequently surged above $1000 a megawatt hour this month and at one point on Tuesday hit the $14,000MWh maximum price.
Complaints from business about the extreme prices – in normal times they are below $100 – prompted the state government to ask energy company ENGIE to switch its mothballed Pelican Point gas power station back on.
The extraordinary intervention – first foreshadowed in December when the government of premier Jay Weatherill hosted an energy crisis meeting – comes as electricity prices soar to near record levels across the nation.
It also comes as the wider national energy market is in upheaval. Gas prices are surging thanks to a brutal cold snap in the southeast that means electricity price relief from bringing more gas generation back into service could be limited.
Cold weather and the closure of South Australia’s Northern and Playford coal-fired power stations as wind provides an increasing share of the state’s power have combined to send NEM prices to their highest average levels since the 2007 drought.
“A planned outage of the Heywood Interconnector to Victoria, coupled with higher than expected gas prices and severe weather conditions have contributed to large-scale price volatility in the energy spot market in recent days,” Mr Koutsantonis said.
“The failure in the energy market has led the Government to ask ENGIE, the owner of Pelican Point Power Station, to run the plant for a short period, providing 239MW of additional supply into the energy market.
“It is believed the increased base-load supply from the previously mothballed plant will lead to improved system security.”*
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God are you people stupid
Speaking of stupid people... Unreliable power creates unreliable pricing.. while destroying infrastructure and jobs... God Crick is stupid!
I wonder how you idiots would react to a power bill that jumps 1,000% for a month... Stupid ass!
Look, your ilk have already proven that you cannot discern the difference between science and science fiction.Nothing new to see here, just deniers censoring science. Move right along.
Muhammed said:You would be better off listening to people like myself who are much smarter than you.
So, do you believe this happened in Australia or not? We know you can't justify your position on anything else related to climateHow about if you think you know some science, you try asking questions that don't say clear as a bell "HAVEN'T THE FAINTED FUCK OF AN IDEA HOW SCIENCE ACTUALLY WORKS"?
Your comments indicate that you know nothing about global warming, nothing about anthropogenic global warming, nothing about any solar theories... just pretty much nothing about anything anyone is discussing here.
I think it's a VERY safe bet that the world's climate research scientists know ENORMOUSLY more than you do about logic and the scientific method. And since they are required to publish their work after peer review, the odds of them being "fraudsters and idiots" is several orders of magnitude less likely than that YOU are a fraud and an idiot. Particularly since you post incontrovertible evidence of such a state, right here, on a regular basis.
Like this:
Muhammed said:You would be better off listening to people like myself who are much smarter than you.
Good god are you a stupid fuck.