Reuters omits the major role COAL still plays in Australia, despite the ongoing closures of coal-fired power plants. in fact, Reuters doesn’t even mention coal.
AFR below omits the fact Eraring is a ***COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT, which is now being asked to stay open longer.
21 May: AFR (Australian Financial Review): Risk of summer blackouts in NSW, Victoria rises
by Ben Potter
The updated outlook comes as the NSW government and Origin discuss keeping the firm’s Eraring (***COAL-FIRED) power station open beyond the planned 2025 closure date to as late as 2029...
AEMO will ask industrial energy users such as aluminium smelters and cement plants to tender for Interim Reliability Reserves for this summer, which are payments for powering down, to minimise the risk of blackouts for consumers in NSW and Victoria...
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/risk-of-summer-power-shortages-in-nsw-victoria-rises-20240520-p5jf35
Australia continues to export around FOUR HUNDRED MILLION TONNES OF COAL TO CHINA ETC ANNUALLY.
The left in Australia says to blame it on the lines, not the “green” power sources.
Another country where the people are held hostage by thier government
Ya' think? Seriously?
The biggest reason that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has trouble in implementing the transmission line connections
lies in the total impracticality of making such a Rube Goldberg construct work in supplying adequate and reliable
power to the masses.