So basically Rupert, News Ltd employees who have a ‘must watch’ clause in their contracts, Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, and a couple of ring ins then?
The 100 or so insecure guys who turn up on every Australian based renewable energy and climate change page on social media to troll.
*may be the same people.
Incel’s need something to do other than ■■■■■ about women you know!
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EF even more A
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Surely Matthew Guy cannot win the Victorian Election !
Even putting aside my bias, Andrews in a good Premier and has got the State actually moving forward. Hasn’t done everything correct but he is having a red hot go.
Yeah but African Gangs,
It’s a war zone out there. Can’t even go out to dinner safely anymore. Carjackings, what has the world come too.
Vote libs and we’ll lock them all up with mandatory sentencing.
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Two African guys competing hard at Docklands today.
I can’t possibly vote for Guy.
He’s a hark back to the 1970’s
Tough on petty crime whilst he delivers corruption on a grand scale with his proper developer mates.
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With Aussie accents…
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I think Andrews has been great and I would love another term out of him. I just think our electorate will buy the scare tactics of the LNP and MSM.
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AEMO just gave the “new and refurbished coal” cheer squad a swift kick in the nuts. Wonder if we will hear anything about it in the MSM
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At least The Guardian have.
Renewables will replace ageing coal plants at lowest cost, Aemo says
Forecast by energy market operator is a blow to Coalition MPs campaigning for new coal-fired generation
Australia’s energy market operator says the future of power generation in Australia will be renewables
with storage, and gas, with those technologies able to replace the power currently supplied by coal generators at least cost.
A new forecast by the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) notes 30% of Australia’s coal generators will approach the end of their technical life over the next two decades, and it says it is important to avoid premature departures if the looming transition in the national energy market is to be orderly.
But while some in the Turnbull government have been campaigning to bolt new coal-fired power into the system, backed with government subsidy or underwriting, Aemo is clear about where the future lies, and it is not with coal.
It says the future of power generation in Australia is renewables with storage, pumped hydro and flexible gas-powered generation.
The market operator says in a forecast to be released on Tuesday that when existing coal resources
Renewables will replace ageing coal plants at lowest cost, Aemo says
retire “the modelling shows that retiring coal plants can be most economically replaced with a portfolio of utility-scale renewable generation, storage, distributed energy resources, flexible thermal capacity, and transmission”.
While some in the government have sought to portray new coal generation as a low-cost option for consumers concerned about high power prices, Aemo’s new forecast completely debunks that argument.
It says the lowest-cost replacement options for retiring coal plants “will be a portfolio of resources, including solar (28GW), wind (10.5 GW) and storage (17 GW and 90 GWh), complemented by 500 MW of flexible gas plant and transmission investment”.
The energy market operator concludes that mix of generation can produce 90 terawatt hours of energy per annum, “more than offsetting the energy lost from retiring coal-fired generation”.
It says the increasing penetration of rooftop solar and other distributed energy resources is having a profound effect on the power system, and it says a growing proportion of supply will come from this form of generation rather than baseload.
The new assessment also suggests Australia’s electricity transmission infrastructure will need to be reinforced to ensure the grid performs optimally after the shift.
It says targeted investment in new transmission “will minimise the overall cost and support consumer value by making better use of existing plant, including distributed energy resources, lower fuel and operating costs and operating risk by a more inter-regionally connected system, and provide system access to the least-cost supply resources that can replace the retiring coal plant”.
The forecast says the cost of replacing the retiring generators with new assets is “significant and unavoidable” – somewhere between $8bn and $27bn, depending on assumptions made around economic growth and rate of industry transformation.
But it says targeted investment in transmission infrastructure, rather than power generation, would create efficiency gains, with cost savings between $1.2bn and $2bn, as well as creating a more robust, resilient, flexible and adaptable network.
The report lays out a three-stage program of investment. A failure to invest in transmission infrastructure would increase consumer costs and risks, Aemo says.
Aemo’s chief executive, Audrey Zibelman, says Australia’s energy market is experiencing “an unprecedented rate of change”.
“We are witnessing disruption across almost every element of the value chain,” Zibelman says. But she says the looming transition will require careful planning “to manage this transformation in order to minimise costs and risks and maximise value to consumers”.
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Amazingly, Rupert’s Australian used the exact same report for a front page story with screaming headline “KING COALTO RULE for NEXT 20 YEARS”.
Lol. Even Uncy Rupa can’t control where electricity generation is going. In fact, he’s doing everyone a favour by deluding all the nuffies amd keeping them calm. The farkwits who like Andrew Bolt will be dribbling about how great coal power is while they’re closing capacity and replacing it with PV amd pumped hydro. If it screamed something about the death of Australia’s energy grid I’d be concerned. The federal government can’t influence much at this point either. It’s all in the hands of the market and governments made their own beds when they handed control of it to the market. PV is about to become so cheap it will be cheaper than existing coal, something the AEMO forecast didn’t even go into. This will make the investment case for more PV even stronger. Emissions targets and subsidies won’t matter. Coal will come under pressure for inflating prices. That’s when the next disinformation wars will happen over what is really going on. Hopefully we don’t have half of politics in the pockets of the coal industry by then.
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Climate scientists are all corrupt
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Australia’s worst kept secret. Gina drives the LNP policy platform with the help of Rupert Murdoch.
Will Labor capitalise on this kind of information in the lead up to the election or is it too much ‘personality politics’? Which in Labor speak tends to mean ‘don’t put the billionaires offside’? Or is there a fear that attacking a Gina type Kaiju will be seen as tall poppying? Questions for those in the know.
They’d need to run it past Rupert first to check if he’d react with all out war on them.
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Miriam — GetUp! [email protected]
25 Jul (1 day ago)
to me
Dear XXX
Court documents just revealed that Gina Rinehart’s company secretly funnelled $4.5 million into the climate-denying, ABC-trashing think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA).1
Our incredible movement has taken on the IPA and Rinehart’s millions before, and we can do it again.
But right now, we’re up against it. Thanks to relentless anti-renewable propaganda from the IPA and friends, the Turnbull Government thinks no one cares about the climate or clean energy. They think they can just ram through an energy plan that’s worse for the climate and clean energy than doing nothing at all.
We have less than three weeks to stop the Turnbull Government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) — which is a gift to coal zealots like Rinehart, and a wrecking ball for renewables.
After 3,760 GetUp members asked their state energy ministers to ditch the NEG, Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg publicly spat the dummy.2 And Murdoch media pundits lined up to condemn us for demanding a real plan for clean energy.3
Why are they so rattled? Because the key state governments who will decide the fate of the NEG still haven’t made up their minds… and there’s only three weeks til D-Day. They know we just might win — but only if we can turn up the heat.
So we have a new, irreverent TV ad to capture the public imagination and the political attention of State Governments. But we’re fresh out of mining companies to funnel money into the ad buy. Fortunately, we have something better — hundreds of thousands of Australians who want to champion clean renewable energy and protect our climate and our Reef from the ravages of burning coal.
Recent polling and research shows that:
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84% of voters, from across the political spectrum, want a sun-powered future, and4
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To meet Turnbull’s weak targets, the coal lobby would need to police suburban rooftops to stop people putting up solar!5
So together with Greenpeace, we worked with one of Australia’s top creative agencies to create a cheeky TV ad designed to draw in voters in key undecided states like Queensland and Victoria.
And this time our ad blitz won’t just change minds — it will drive in calls, by asking voters to phone their state Energy Minister at this critical moment of decision. Many of them may never have called their representatives before.
But to have an impact, our attention-grabbing TV ad needs to run next week. With airtime scarce, we need to lock in this advertising right now — and the more money we raise, the more people we’ll reach.
Can you CHIP IN to fund this all-out media blitz — and send a clear message to Turnbull and our State Governments that we want an energy plan that creates more renewables, not less?
Josh Frydenberg attacked thousands of GetUp members as “extreme” for pointing out that we need a national climate policy that actually cuts climate pollution.6 Because the jury is in, and the NEG is going to do more harm than good.
Yet this still doesn’t satisfy the coal zealots! People like Tony Abbott, and even some members of the IPA, are pushing back on the NEG because they think it’s not bad enough for the climate and clean energy!
Huge swathes of the country are in drought. The Great Barrier Reef is on the edge of extinction. Record heat waves have been pushing our power system to the brink and pushing up our power bills. And renewables are ready to save the day, cutting carbon pollution and bringing down power prices at the same time.
While the Turnbull government is listening to the anti-renewable propaganda funded by the coal lobby, key state governments are still listening to their voters. And with renewables more popular than ever, this ad can inspire them to be brave, stand up to the coal industry’s money machine, and vote against the NEG on August 10.
This could actually be the thing to divide the electorate and sink the Andrews government if they go either way on the NEG.