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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The "net zero" counterfactual argument in 2 questions

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I want to spend some time collating my thoughts on a counterfactual arguments for the current state of Energy policy in Australia.  With a F...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The revealing costs of ancillary services

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  In a previous post  I had this to say about synchronous condensers. To give you an idea of the scale of the investment required for ancill...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

If storage is minor, then the transition will cost the moon.

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I've been mulling over the 2024-25 GenCost report and AEMO's ISP over the last week to try to decipher in my own mind exactly what...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Gas, transition and the energy trilemma

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In a  previous post  I talked about the energy transition that is underway across the globe and the investment risks that is presents, espec...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The unexplainable, under-reported gas debacle

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I'm writing this post as a backgrounder and as a reference for future posts because y ou can't talk about energy policy in Australia...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The questionable economics of "Community" batteries

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Like many regions of the planet that have the advantage of glorious amounts of sunshine, the uptake of domestic solar has been immense  acro...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The risk in costing the renewable transition

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Today I want to discuss the Australian electricity network with a broader look at what has been planned for the transition to renewables. M...