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SA seeks bids for 100MW battery plant to kick off storage boom
South Australia to build country’s biggest battery storage plant via tender, as well as adding gas plant as “back-up”, creating a new “energy security target” and giving energy minister new powers to intervene in electricity market.
Giles Parkinson
Mar 14, 2017
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Wholesale price rises whodunit: Gas or renewables?
What drove Victoria’s wholesale electricity market prices up 46% in 2016? We put the screws on the historical data to find out.
Bruce Mountain
Mar 8, 2017
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Coal
Biggest risk to grid security is coal, gas settings, not wind or solar
New study suggests biggest threat to Australia’s energy security comes not from wind and solar, but from the control settings of coal and gas plants. It’s a revelation that should turn the debate around renewables vs fossil on its head.
Giles Parkinson
Mar 7, 2017
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Utilities
How do you solve a problem like the NEO?
While the Finkel Review recognises Australia’s “energy trilemma” – security, affordability and sustainability – we have a market that recognises only the first two of these objectives.
Mark Byrne
Mar 7, 2017
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Storage
Our power grid is crying out for capacity, but should we open the gas valves?
With high gas prices partly to blame for the electricity blackouts that hit SA this month, and gas-fired generators caught short in NSW two days later, there are calls for Australia’s onshore gas to flow much more freely.
Dylan McConnell
Feb 24, 2017
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Smart Energy
Why did energy regulators deliberately turn out the lights in South Australia?
Last Wednesday around 90,000 homes and businesses in South Australia were deliberately disconnected from the electricity grid for up to an hour. So why did it actually happen?
Hugh Saddler
Feb 13, 2017
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Governments
Jumping electricity prices – It’s a gas, gas gas
Spot electricity prices have gone through the stratosphere this summer, particularly in Queensland where average prices have been more than double of renewable energy leader South Australia.
Rob Campbell
Jan 20, 2017
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AEMO wants to spend billions more on networks, gas
AEMO report sets out pressing challenges facing Australian electricity networks in future, looks to past for solutions.
Jonathan Gifford
Dec 12, 2016
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AER details extraordinary price gouging by gas generators in SA
Regulator says re-bidding by major gas players caused major South Australia power price spikes in August and September.
Giles Parkinson
Nov 30, 2016
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No social licence, no gas fracking in South Australia
Committee finds no social licence for unconventional gas “fracking” in south-east SA – a decision based in health concerns, among others.
David Shearman & Melissa Haswell
Nov 30, 2016
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