Sudden breakdowns at AGL Energy’s biggest power station in NSW have combined with delays to repairs at its Victorian generator to intensify the energy crisis gripping the eastern states and narrow the reserves of supply in the system just as winter hits its straps.worsen the shortage of power generating capacity
In Queensland, a cap on wholesale prices is thought to be close to being imposed after a sustained run of extreme high prices, which included record winter demand reached on Thursday evening. Queensland is “well on the way towards” a level that would trigger the so-called “cumulative price threshold”, which would be the first time a controlled price cap has been used in the state, Paul McArdle at industry specialist Global-ROAM said.
On Friday it advised of an extension of the outage at its 2210MW Loy Yang A coal power plant in Victoria of at least six weeks, pushing its return date to the second half of September. Slow progress in building the transmission lines needed to allow power from the complex project to flow to markets to the north and south reinforces the problem.
relied heavily on the 2000MW Snowy 2.0 being available for NSW through the HumeLink transmission line in 2026-27. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meanwhile slammed the former Coalition government’s handling of Snowy 2.0, declaring it an example of how they were “always about the announcement, never about the delivery”.
AGL was trying to spin off their useless clunky power generators to get cash
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AGL power station outages intensify energy crisisBreakdowns at AGL coal power stations have deepened the immediate energy crisis, while likely delays at Snowy 2.0 have darkened the longer-term outlook. Nice timing, wholesale price goes up. 🤦 More investment needed into coal to help everyone out of this hole 🕳 Yeah 'sudden' breakdowns
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AGL shows energy crisis risks becoming the new realityOPINION: History says a new set of faults will be just around the corner. Ageing power plants are like ageing humans – we tend to have more problems as we get older, not fewer. Fortunately the infrastructure surrounding intermittants never ages Everyone wants to save the planet but there is no policy or structure to energy transition. Companies will not invest in maintenance of assets if there is no future. All the noise makers are rich and have no idea what price the poor Consumers pay for this. Victoria will face challenges as it exits coal by early 2030s. Madness, really.
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AGL power station outages intensify energy crisisBreakdowns at AGL coal power stations have deepened the immediate energy crisis, while likely delays at Snowy 2.0 have darkened the longer-term outlook. Nice timing, wholesale price goes up. 🤦 More investment needed into coal to help everyone out of this hole 🕳 Yeah 'sudden' breakdowns
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Australia's largest energy provider AGL reveals coal-fired power outages will continueThere is no relief in sight from Australia's energy crisis with almost one-quarter of coal-fired capacity offline, and the nation's largest producer revealing several of its units will be out for some time. How good is coal mate? 🤣 How will all the lefty tic tok influencers charge there phones If we all get to go Zero-Emissions Net-Zero Carbo-Neutral Where does all the man-made 'plant food' CO2 go that we're still pumping out ? And does this mean we get to keep using Coal/Gas ?
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AGL shows energy crisis risks becoming the new realityOPINION: History says a new set of faults will be just around the corner. Ageing power plants are like ageing humans – we tend to have more problems as we get older, not fewer. Fortunately the infrastructure surrounding intermittants never ages Everyone wants to save the planet but there is no policy or structure to energy transition. Companies will not invest in maintenance of assets if there is no future. All the noise makers are rich and have no idea what price the poor Consumers pay for this. Victoria will face challenges as it exits coal by early 2030s. Madness, really.
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