Sign up for wind and solar and receive power supply chaos as just one of the added extras, along with rocketing power prices and a wave of social and environmental havoc.
Australia has been on the path since 2001 when Federal Liberal PM, John Howard introduced his Renewable Energy Target. The Target was greatly expanded by Labor in 2009, with the subsidies to wind and solar pumped up to cost Australian power consumers more than $4 billion a year.
But tonight’s post is about something that, barely a decade ago, was almost inconceivable in a country blessed with coal, gas and (completely ignored) uranium. That is, routine power supply disruptions in the form of widespread load shedding (when the grid manager is in control) and mass blackouts (when things get completely out of control).
At the heart of the debacle sits sunshine-dependent solar and weather-dependent wind.
Here’s Chris Kenny’s…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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