Electrical Power Generation and Consumption

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Greetings,

Electrical power generation and costs are often talked about in Australia. Closing traditional coal powered generations and replacing these with renewables is the trend.

Attached is a screen shot of power consumption in Australia today @ 10:55. Most working days a similar outcome happens.

Basically reading through the data and then remembering the claims from politicians and environmentalist no one wants to state the obvious "holistically Australia's capacity to generate electricity and consumption is at a critical point - aka Australia is screwed!"

Victoria can not generate enough power for itself, so it imports power from SA and NSW at a very high costs. Perhaps Victoria's euthanasia legislation now makes more sense. RIP Hazelwood.

NSW can not generate enough power for itself, so it imports power from QLD and then on-sells power to Victoria as a higher price than what it buys from QLD (good business model for NSW)

Tasmania generates surplus power and on-sells this to Victoria

SA (the renewable capital - yeah right), sells its surplus to Victoria.

Most of the country is basically supported by QLD and here in QLD two political parties are racing each other to shutdown coal power stations and replace with renewables (sounds good yeah?)

So if you wonder why our power costs keep going up, it is a simple supply and demand situation. There isn't enough supply and our politicians aided and abetted by the generators and environmentalist are hell bent on making it worse!!

Bring on a big heatwave on the eastern states, it will make things very interesting. No one mention Blackouts no need to cause panic...

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