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That report is a misleading simplification. AEMC projects a 5% fall in the cost of producing electricity over the next five years. However, retail prices could rise by as much as 13% over the next five years due to inflation, network and distribution costs, compliance and investment costs, demand growth, retailer return on investment, and weather volatility.

Had a shit of a night's sleep last night! Kept getting woken up by the rain pounding on the roof. When I got up this morning water was laying is sheets across the ground. I had to go out and clear twigs and leaves from the drainage channels I dug back when the last big rains came. I measured 50 mm in the rain guage, and it is still raining. The rain event is supposed to last for the next couple of days.

Bugger! Sucked in again. Who can beleive anything that is published? Do you still beleive that it rained at my place last night?

At last! Good to see you finally got some rain. Now you'll be complaining about having to buy a lawnmower. Where we are, I'd have to say 'Crikey it's damp!'. Every day we wake to grey wet mist, punctuated by bouts of drizzle. Forecast is the same for the forseeable future.

I ws given a guage by a friend when I had said that I didn't know how much rain I had got in a previous rain event. I didn't know how weel it would catch the rain as the mouth is ony about an inch square. Also, I oftern wonder how well guages catch rain becasue they are set up vertically and rain normally falls at an angle. Anyway, what it captured is only indicative of the rainfall within its immediate surrounds. It doesn't tell yoou how much rain fell 100 metres away. We'll see by the end of the week if the drought is broken.

Just heard that electricity prices are set to reduce shortly. I heard it on the ABC radio news with a quote from responsible person. Why? In the report it was said that renewable generation was now at 50% of requirement in South Australia, New South Wales and South-east Queensland. A lot of this has been due to the development of storage batteries. We've come a very long way in the adoption of renewable generation, haven't we?