Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills?

• spiffmeister@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can do a bit better than citing a dude with vested interests. You can even find government sources that roughly agree with you: The AEMC report

  However the report also notes that:

  Delays to new wind and transmission build, and the uncoordinated use of CER are projected to have the biggest impact on electricity costs.

  Highlighting that renewables do decrease prices. Of course, reducing gas prices would probably also reduce prices.

  Also at least for last quarter the [AEMO] (www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/…/qed-q4-2024.pdf?r…) report that coal and transmission are the driving costs. Negative energy prices were primarily driven by renewables.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The AEMO are the biggest vested interest in this. Nothing they say can be taken seriously.

    Renewables don’t decrease prices because without transmission and grid-scale storage, which doesn’t even exist yet, it’s basically useless.

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