Destroying coal-fired power plants is all part of the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ and precisely the point of the subsidies to wind and solar which are designed to allow the unreliables to undercut cheap and reliable coal-fired power, thereby driving coal-fired plants out of business. The inevitable consequences include rocketing power prices and rolling blackouts.
The Australian state of New South Wales has just shut Liddell (above) – a perfectly operable coal-fired plant, that once delivered 2,000MW to the grid, around-the-clock, whatever the weather.
Wholesale power prices jumped from $96 to $228 – almost overnight; an 80% increase within a week of the plant’s closure.
The loss of that volume of power to a grid already teetering on the brink of collapse, can only help ensure that result.
Liddell’s planned (yes, ‘planned’) closure was meant to be no big deal.
You see, back in March 2017 then PM, Malcolm…
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