Saturday, 7 December 2024

AUSTRALIAN GRID - A WARNING OF WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THE UK SOON

Below is an extract from the latest news from "down under". Read it all at the link.

If your company has agreed to be ready to shut down at a moments notice on a warm day, that’s not being on “Standby to Close” your business is a ““pre-activated” extra reserve.”

In Renewable World, bad is good: your smelter used to make aluminum, but now you can sell “electricity use reduction” as well, and the AEMO (the grid manager in Australia) will call you a “Virtual Power Plant” too. Australian companies can now sell their own blackouts back to the grid.  

Those who control the energy, control the people. Every part of this trend is a step in a dumb direction. We’re paying more for less in every single aspect. More people sit around being useless, or half useful, or distracted. More companies make fewer goods. And more government makes more government which is the worst thing of all…

Grid not-fit-for-purpose: On a warm day, Crazy Australia paid $3.5m to industry to *stop* working « JoNova

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