{"id":271622,"date":"2023-08-05T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271622"},"modified":"2023-08-05T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:29:05","slug":"always-cheap-ever-reliable-coal-fired-power-preventing-australian-grid-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271622","title":{"rendered":"Always Cheap & Ever-Reliable Coal-Fired Power Preventing Australian Grid\u00a0Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The wind and sun cult never admit it, but if it weren\u2019t for coal-fired power Australia\u2019s grid would have collapsed, long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chugging away for the best part of a century, Australia\u2019s coal-fired plants continue to provide power reliably, on demand, whatever the weather. No need for batteries, no need for back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, as the team from Jo Nova outline below, coal-fired power remains the cheapest power source, of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inflation be damned \u2014 Brown coal is still making electricity for 3c a Kilowatt hour<\/strong>
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
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Last quarter I reported that the\u00a0Australian Energy Market Operators (AEMO) had strangely \u201cforgotten\u201d to list the brown coal prices<\/a>\u00a0in its quarterly report, despite it being the\u00a0second largest energy source<\/a>\u00a0in our national electricity market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other quarters, often they would include a graph comparing the average winning bids of all the major fuel types \u2014 a graph that surely is essential in these inflationary times where our electricity prices are setting record highs, rising by 25% this month, and we have a national debate on our energy crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the next quarterly report the AEMO did list the average \u201cwinning bids\u201d of brown coal but didn\u2019t do the comparison graph, so I\u2019ve done it for them. If only they had room in their 68 page report and\u00a0$450 million dollar budget<\/a>\u00a0so Australians can see, at a glance, which fuel source provides the cheapest wholesale generation by far, every quarter, all the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the inflation, the war, and the pandemic, brown coal generators are still making electricity for 3c a KWh. Shouldn\u2019t Australians know that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Compare that to current retail electricity prices in our renewables superstar state South Australia \u2014 where the cost varies from\u00a033c to 47c per kilowatt hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown coal doesn\u2019t \u201cset\u201d the winning bid as often as it used to when it was a larger proportion of our generation mix. Obviously, if it did, we\u2019d have cheaper electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prices for solar and wind power were the nonsensical minus $24 and minus $41\/ MWh. They\u2019re not included because they are not despatchable, and most of the costs of the unreliables are hidden in subsidies. When we spend $20 billion on pumped hydro and transmission lines, those costs, like the batteries and demand schemes should be added to the wind and solar charges. When the rest of the reliable grid has to charge more to cover their costs of sitting around on \u201cstandby\u201d \u2014 those higher costs should be added to the renewables bill too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown coal is a national asset because it is impervious to international dramas and conflicts. It can\u2019t be shipped far because it has a habit of catching fire on the boat, so there is no international market, instead we have hundreds of years of supply all to ourselves. The more we use, the more black coal and gas we can make billions of dollars with. Instead of being a renewable energy superpower, we could be a cheap energy superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australia made $124 billion dollars in export revenues from black coal last year<\/strong>
Imagine a world where Australian electricity prices were cheap again and industries moved here from all over the world. With the extra funds Australian families could afford laptops, music lessons, books and adventure camps for every child, or trips to the Whitsundays, Ningaloo, whatever turned them on. Parents might not have to work two jobs. What a life of riches we gave up so easily, with so little thought, because we were badgered and bullied into a futile quest to change the weather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is, here in the Renewable Land, the Australian Labor Party has decided\u00a0not to even talk about coal in its party platform,<\/a>\u00a0despite it being\u00a0our second largest export industry<\/a>. President Xi, Larry Fink, the WEF and the UN will be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFERENCE:\u00a0The AEMO Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) reports<\/a>
Jo Nova Blog<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wind and sun cult never admit it, but if it weren\u2019t for coal-fired power Australia\u2019s grid would have collapsed, long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":271633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691819332,691819630,691821613,691818130],"class_list":{"0":"post-271622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-coal-fired-power","10":"tag-energy-crisis","11":"tag-grid-collapse","12":"tag-renewables","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0ss-141014-king-coal-highway-tease-1.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-18F0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":198991,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=198991","url_meta":{"origin":271622,"position":0},"title":"Renewable Energy Rip-Off: How Price Gougers Profit from Sunset & Calm Weather","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/05\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Intermittent wind and solar are a natural guarantee of grid chaos and rocketing power prices. every single country that\u2019s chased the wind and solar pipe dream has watched their power prices go through the roof, with no exception. 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