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1 posted on 05/20/2024 8:48:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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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.


2 posted on 05/20/2024 9:12:07 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: nickcarraway

The left in Australia says to blame it on the lines, not the “green” power sources.


4 posted on 05/21/2024 2:07:30 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Another country where the people are held hostage by thier government


5 posted on 05/21/2024 4:22:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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..the mothballing and retirement of gas and diesel power generators in South Australia could impact the power grid.

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.

7 posted on 05/21/2024 6:09:50 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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