Not that they condone it, or anything. Of course.
bhut...
It almost looks like a cop that was hit. Anyone seen any closer footage?
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Not that they condone it, or anything. Of course.
bhut...
It wasn't. It's just a high vis vest.It almost looks like a cop that was hit. Anyone seen any closer footage?
Surely that can't be right? There would be a slew of driving offences that they appear to have committed??So the driver has copped a $480ish fine for driving their car into the protestors, some of who are looking at jail time and $22k fines under the new legislation that NSW recently passed.
What a great free democracy we live in where protesting inaction on climate change is considered worse than driving your car into protestors
Surely that can't be right? There would be a slew of driving offences that they appear to have committed??
Apparently it is. You would hope he will be charged on summons for dangerous driving or something similar!
Penalty | First offence | Second or subsequent offence |
---|---|---|
Maximum court-imposed fine | $2200 | $3300 |
Maximum prison term | 9 months | 12 months |
Minimum disqualification | 12 months | 2 years |
Maximum disqualification | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Disqualification in the absence of a specific court order | 3 years | 5 years |
WTF??
The rest of that article is actually quite interesting (if not completely partisan). Seems a technical issue rather than anything to do with the infrastructure not being able to do what it was forecast to do.“Unreliable and dirty:” CEC urges storage target over capacity mechanism
Clean Energy Council joins growing chorus rejecting capacity mechanism in favour of an energy storage target.reneweconomy.com.au
How reliable is storage:
Tesla big battery fined for failing to deliver promised capacity when coal plant tripped
28 June 2022
'The owner of the Hornsdale Power Reserve, which won fame as Australia’s biggest battery under the moniker the “Tesla big battery,” has been fined $900,000 by the federal court after being sued by the Australian Energy Regulator for the failure to deliver promised capacity.
Hornsdale was required to respond under a contract for “contingent frequency response” with AEMO. This is where the cavalry rushes in to address major network problems to prevent outages.'
'The action against the Hornsdale battery follows AER actions against various wind farms over the settings in the lead up to South Australia state-wide blackout in late 2016.
Also on Wednesday, AGL was ordered to pay $3.5 million in fines for operating low ride through settings at the Hallett wind farms, which justice Besanko described as a “serious breach of the National Electricity Rules.
It took total penalties against wind farms in South Australia to $6.15 million. Other wind farms to be penalised include the Snowtown 2 wind farm ($1 million), the Hornsdale wind farm (350,000) and the Clements Gap wind farm ($1.1 million.'
Just another utensil up or indicative of a battle to keep the lights on in the east coast energy market ...
Tesla big battery fined for failing to deliver promised capacity when coal plant tripped
Hornsdale big battery fined over response to market when country’s biggest coal unit failed, and AGL wind farms fined over settings in lead up to South Australia blackout.reneweconomy.com.au
The rest of that article is actually quite interesting (if not completely partisan). Seems a technical issue rather than anything to do with the infrastructure not being able to do what it was forecast to do.
It does raise a good question about who is contractually responsible for what. Are coal power plants bound by the same requirement to supply? Given what has been happening over the last few months I daresay they're not.
As soon as it talks about "unreliable gas and coal" you know its bullshit. Its like saying "cars are unreliable". Yeah , they can be.
I know as a fact that the old SECV had a world standard preventive maintenance system. ( Recognition/prediction of machine failure before it happens so that repairs can be planned and fast ). Under privatisation policy changed to , "wait until it breaks , then fix it ).
How many blackouts and brownouts did we have before global warming was a thing?
We get vested parties on both sides trying to win the argument based on bullshit.
How many blackouts and brownouts did we have before global warming was a thing?
When we run the grid really close to the bone , then you start to see unreliability issues.
If you have the electricity dropping dramatically because a cloud front rolls over the state, the Coal stations will struggle to respond to that without a buffer.
( It used to take hours to start up a coal power station, computerisation has helped that , but its still nothing instant ).
As we bring in more and more fluctuating renewables, grid management will become a bigger issue.
I've followed renewable energy Archives - RenewEconomy for some time as it does come at the issues from a green point of view BUT more often than not, its factual reporting is both accurate & clean, not reporting opinion as fact.
I understand your concerns but & have decided to accept the issues raised. Its true of most/all reporting these days.
My #1 issue is WHEN, when do the folks see fossil fuels gone & what has replaced them.
'AEMO, which is due to unveil the 2022 Integrated System Plan on Thursday, noted in a Tweet on Tuesday that the proposed capacity of new projects, mostly wind and solar and storage, now totalled 150.7GW, or 150,732MW, this month.'
New generation and storage pipeline reaches 150GW as AEMO prepares its plan
AEMO reveals new generation and project proposals now total more than 150GW, as it prepares to release latest 20-year blueprint of how to connect it all to the grid.reneweconomy.com.au
See the link
“AEMO’s Generation Information file, updated in June, shows the fuel mix for existing generation and storage capacity in the NEM, totalling 59 GW,” it said.
“Projects in the pipeline are expected to increase this number to 150GW by 2032, with renewables leading the way.”
The overwhelming majority of new projects are wind (68GW), boosted by a raft of new offshore wind projects, followed by solar (36GW) and battery storage (27GW). There are only 7.2GW of new fossil fuel projects.'
'This scenario, endorsed by the overwhelming majority of energy stakeholders, predicted an 80 per cent share of renewable within a decade (up from 31 per cent now), and the end of brown coal generation by 2032, and all coal generation in the early 2040s.'
My frustration is that we should be seeing a plan to keep the lights on - too simple ?
That you're making compelling points, and he has dipped into the well of SkyNewsAustralia talking points.Your point being?
California grid bill leans on fossil fuels to keep the lights on | Energy News Network
Also: New Mexico advocates pan coal plant carbon capture planenergynews.usWhy the lights are going out again in South Africa
The state power monopoly is beset by problemswww.economist.comRenewable energy can help affordably keep the lights on • Daily Montanan
Renewable energy may be the key to affordable, reliable power supply in the upcoming years and Montana should embrace it more, writes Robin Arnold and Taylor McNair.dailymontanan.comUS power companies could battle to keep the lights on amid summer supply crunches
Consumer power use is expected to hit record highs this season, which could strain grids when the weather could pose reliability issueswww.businesslive.co.zaWhy You Need Home Batteries -- and It's Not All About Blackouts
Get over the idea that you'll make a killing selling your excess energy back to your utility. Keep it instead.www.cnet.comThe Energy Security Blueprint - is it a plan to keep the lights on and drive the renewables transition or will it simply lock in fossil fuels? - ABC listen
The latest casualty of the building industry's labour and materials shortages - plans to build more social housing.www.abc.net.au
Queensland left to do heavy lifting on energy
'The crisis does lay in the lack of policy certainty at the federal level, not just in the past few years of Liberal/National rule, but also with Labor, which failed to bring the community with it from 2007 to 2013 on climate. The “carbon tax” became a toxic weapon as Labor struggled to explain the global benefits over the domestic pain being caused by the measure.
So while it’s welcome that Labor wants to “end the climate war”, we need a peacetime plan for national energy security.'
.... the gas produced in WA’s North West Shelf is “wet gas” where high-value hydrocarbons are collected and sold on by the gas producers.
It’s a very different market to the gas found now on the east coast, which overwhelmingly is coal seam gas, often extracted with fracking. In addition, most east coast gas is now produced out of Queensland with a huge emphasis on export LNG. Queensland gave development approvals without the requirement for domestic gas reservation and has seen a multi-billion-dollar industry established in the past decade that can produce record quantities because of that policy certainty.
Though I have sympathy for the many manufacturers who are facing world parity gas prices and clearly households are under financial pressure, it’s not that Australia doesn’t have enough gas or proponents prepared to back import terminals for LNG. What is needed is for the governments in NSW and Victoria is to make the same level of contribution as Queensland does.
Just as Queensland’s fleet of publicly owned, modern coal-fired generators has kept the lights on for the premiers of NSW and Victoria, so too has its supplies into the national gas market.
This all while Victoria’s ageing power fleet stumbles into retirement and NSW’s government actively cheers on and backs the closure of AGL’s power stations, some of the nation’s biggest.
Both states’ power stations are yielding to the energy uncertainty delivered by green-tinged governments. NSW has vast areas that can produce gas, as does Victoria with onshore gas. Both resources have faced years of approvals uncertainty or a ban under a politically motivated moratorium in Victoria.
Both states are sitting on import terminal planning applications for Geelong and Port Kembla respectively, yet neither have been approved.
The only explanation is that both states want Queensland to be forced to reserve gas for their domestic users like WA, and in so doing unfairly burden Queensland producers who invested in good faith.
The Andrews Labor government and the Perrottet Liberals would prefer to pander to anti-fossil fuel zealots found in the Greens and teals’ elected representatives than open up more supply in their own states.
The activist movement, having demonised coal, are doing the very same to gas, despite gas globally helping achieve many nations’ Paris climate targets.
Australia needs a national energy security compact that involves NSW and Victoria setting aside self-serving domestic politics and acting in the national interest to supply more gas.
If NSW and Victoria won’t step up, national leadership is required. Supplying more gas into the market will help keep downward pressure on gas prices and provide certainty of price and supply. Preferably, this would be Australian gas produced for Australia, but at the very least it should be about increasing supply and access to imported gas rather than asking Queensland yet again to not only keep the lights on, but take an unacceptable hit to its own gas industry to fix problems of NSW and Victoria’s own making.
Cameron Milner has worked on three election campaigns for Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Digressing, but there is a plan/suggestion/? to send renewable power to Singapore.it becomes inefficient to transmit AC electricity over long distances.
The Eastern states have enough gas, it's just that we allow the private companies to ship it all offshore. Enough of this price gouging, we should take back control of our natural resources.Experts call for west-east gas pipeline amid energy crisis, but not everyone thinks it's the right solution
Experts say the idea of a pipeline connecting WA's gas resources to the eastern states should be revisited to shore up energy security, while others believe it doesn't fit into Australia's low-emissions future.www.abc.net.au
'The idea to connect Western Australia's gas resources to the eastern states is not new, but while some experts believe it is a no-brainer to shore up energy security, others say it will be obsolete by the time it is built as the nation forges ahead with its renewables transition.'
At least you can estimate a time when gas will be available, whats the timeline of the alternatives ?
The Eastern states have enough gas, it's just that we allow the private companies to ship it all offshore. Enough of this price gouging, we should take back control of our natural resources.
Hmm, I'd say you're probably bothAbysmal or ignorant ?
Digressing, but there is a plan/suggestion/? to send renewable power to Singapore.