Energy crisis due to cold front

I completely agree with you.

There is a global energy crisis, no more gas drilling, coal mines closed and new mines mostly prevented.

Coil price at all time hig h ($USD 412/tonne), as well as natural gas. Oil price rising like crazy.  They are trying to bring the fuel price down as will impact US mid term election.

Trade wars, now protectionism, keeping food and fuel/gas and banning exports.  Next economic collapse as inflation gets the debt bubbles, then global war. It is all unravelling very fast.  Cold snaps, heat waves in US expect power outages,

Almost glad labour won the election, they will now sit with the baby and be blamed for the mess.

It is true. WA has 15% domestic production set aside. Idon't know the name.

East coast ket in the multis who set the contracts and price when johnny h was in power. However at some stage the CSG could not meet contracted supply so they sourced gas for export from Bass strait which was our traditional local supply. This screwed our local market.

On the radio thursday, an employee from Santos mentioned that we can be completely self sufficient for gas. But, there are capped gas wells everywhere, but, the Greens will cause a big political stir and it won't happen. They hate coal & gas, so are pushing harder for renewables.

Go the whole way, totally off grid and give these pesky polies the flick forever.





I'm going to speak my mind as I have nothing to lose.

It is said, energy prices through the roof.. Now there are more and more threats to availability.. Supposedly in places in California US, gas is higher priced than the minimum wage... Look for that to be an inflation buster...
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They have tried to train us to get jabbed, show ID whenever leaving house, dob in people, stay home, distrust alternative opinion, prepare for food shortages but not to stockpile, panic buy, prepare for austerity, not eat meat, price increases....it goes on. I call it training to get used to 3rd world living.
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As long as this training applies to the greenies and such that keep taking a hard line approach to not allowing anything to ease the crisis, let them sit and look at there soy latte machines that there is no power to run..

There's no requirement at all for coal generators to fluctuate their output. When this happens it's a direct result of the price that the power plant owners bid into the market.
It's a problem of their own making. You can't make money operating in the electricity market by running obsolete equipment into the ground, then complain when a competitor comes along and starts eating into your profit margins. If coal plants need to run at a temporary loss to prevent a reduction in output, that's their call. Nobody elses.

Blaming renewables is a scapegoat for these guys. All new renewables plants are required to put in reactive plant like statcoms and syncons to adhere to system stability requirements that the coal generators never had to meet. Practically every new renewable generator is installing a large battery or at least allowing for it. Coal generators want their cake and eat it too, then blame someone else if occasionally it tastes like shit.

As hydro has high MW capacity but low MWh capacity, it is generally used sparingly. The 'baseload' hydro dams are ones whose primary purpose is agriculture. Hydro is terrible for spinning reserve, and wasted if used in that role. Pumped hydro can be very useful, though it means you need two dams, not one.
The flood of syncons being installed is providing the new spinning reserve these days.

aemo.com.au/market-notices

For anyone that's interested, there's been several market releases put out recently by AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) stating that NSW & QLD have minimum power reserves lower than the anticipated needs for the regions. That means that minimum amount that they have available is below the how much they expect to be required. I don't know how much the minimum amount varies from the maximum amount, but looking at the forecasts for available minimums vs expected needs, it appears that the gulf is wide for almost every notice that's been submitted.

What does this mean for folks in NSW & QLD if you're not off grid? Get out your warmest of warm blankets, charge up your power banks/batteries/power boxes, have candles and torches with charged batteries ready to go, consider any items that might need power during an emergency in the period (like mobile phones, medical devices etc), and check on your elderly, sick, or families with very young children to see if they have prepared just in case. The cold will be the biggest issue for many and while we can rug up with extra blankets an elderly person living alone or someone that's physically restricted might need some help to get set up so that everything's within reach and pre-organised for them.

I'm hopeful that no one here has to worry about a period without electricity (yes yes, most of you are probably not reliant on the grid but a few of us are) because it's likely that it will only be a few hours if we're even impacted at all, and all that has to happen is using preps that are already there. 

I feel pretty confident that these kind of situations will keep happening so I'm doing the rounds with all my battery charging now. If you ARE off grid and don't have to worry about it, maybe use the time to contact your friends and family to make sure that they're aware that there's a possibility of service disruptions so that they can get ready too.