Siso

We all have our moments! Unfortunately with social media you can't get away with anything.

Ol' Barnaby works pretty hard on stopping other stupid politicians allowing stuff in that can wreck our bio security.

Why pick Pauline out, they are all puppets and none really have any talent except for bull****. Sick of career politicians. at least she has had a real job. Gave you an example of shallow Albo is with his carrying on about the fuel reserve in 2020?. and no doing anything about it when he came to power. all muppets.

I see this making it expensive for large users who unfortunately are the employers of people. the hatched lines are the constraints for the last couple of days and I have seen it worse. By the time we add enough generation to cover the bad times, the good times are going to have a lot of oversupply. Are the generators going to just accept this or make their energy more expensive. Also shows how much smore storage we need. (SA grid)

Yep, I am a part of the problem. I could take the ethical stand and disconnect but it saves me money. I am a hypocrite!

Been watching the price closely in SA since 2010.(was working for a windfarm) Limited intermittents on the grid back then. Price use to be between $45 and $65 every day all day. As the penetration of intermittents increased so did the volitility. Its parasitic because it eats at the stability of the grid that base load generation can provide. Has not always been volitile as above Because I can save money at the time and still do. My next door neibour who hasn't got panels and my kids unfortunately.

use to be regularly. Know happens most day. Bit like the price, Use to variable, know it is volatile. No wonder it is so expensive with all the parasitic intermittent gen. No one knows whats happening next day.

no such thing as free electricity, just grid mis management

I have the early contracts, put in as much as I like at 50c/kWh

Yes, but someone pays it. the retailer adds more to someone elses bid. people that can least afford it. The retailers are going to be out of pocket.

try amber.com.au

They do charge it but if you make enough of the power you put in the grid you don't pay it, it gets absorbed in your energy payment, but someone pays it!

What I am saying is that some people (me included) still have their grid connection and end up getting a cheque a couple of times a year. I don't pay for my grid connection. My energy company does and I am pretty sure they would pass the cost onto others. e.g industry, those that rent and have no solar and people living in apartments and people that can't afford to buy a house. (I have kids in the last category) This energy system is expensive for those that can least afford it. These are politicians constituents who they are suppose to look after, not make life hard for those that can least afford for a policy(ideaology) that is going to make no difference to the problem it is supposed to fix until the big players catch up.

Meant to say inverters don't contribute to the stability of the grid. if people manage their battery systems properly they won't have and electricity bills so aren't contributing to the construction and maintenance costs of the grid. You are right about the progression of cars. Electricty has seen a similar path. More people are getting access to it and up and to recently it the generation was getting more energy dense and more controllable, now we are heading back 200 years when work was done with windmills whenever the wind happened to blow. Base load is only dead because of parasitic intermittent generation which is causing us to have to use traditional base load generators as peakers. I am not anti intermittent generation but trying to run a whole grid on it in an industrilised country is expensive and probably wont work. Germany has a 160GW of installed wind and solar and are still importing from France and Sweden. How much of an overbuild do you need. Germanys max demand goes somewhere between 40 and 60 GW. France is exporting 15GW into into countrys all around it at the moment. Writing and punctuation isn't my strong suit, but I can lift heavy things though(use to be able to.)

I should have specified intermittents. Hydro is pretty well base load if managed well. Has good heavy stuff turning with synchronous generators. As I understand some pumped hydro uses inverters so they get the varispeed/load for pumping operations. need to be confirmed. Offshore wind is very expensive, still is intermittent. Contribute to the grid by supplying power to it but don't really contribute to the cost of it if you export enough to cover off what you draw. Someone has to pay for it and unfortunately that will be people who can't afford it, renters and industry. The grid is getting larger as well that needs to built and maintained by these people. Inverters don't contribute to the grid. See Spain april 2025. from what I understand was caused by solar inverters playing up at a solar farm. I know you won't believe me! Will try to find some links. grid scale grid forming inverters haven't really been tested. They are installed at Broken Hill but weren't commissioned at the time of their blackout. Would have been a real good test since their GT's hadn't been maintained and were unreliable. They may have been able to run the town on solar and batterys.