DEAR News Of The Area,
A NUMBER of correspondents to these pages are of the opinion that so-called ‘renewables’ are the cheapest form of energy.
They’re technically wrong; energy from the wind and sun is actually free.
It’s the superstructure that supports this generation that is costing Australians billions of dollars.
We don’t actually know exactly how much because we are not being told.
However, estimates as high as $1 trillion are not unusual.
Australian authorities and government are banking on technology that is hard to buy and yet to be proven at a scale necessary to provide base load power to our network.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is having to intervene, by juggling the system, to avoid ‘brown outs’.
These interventions disrupt industry and business and all add to costs borne by the consumer.
Heavily subsidised battery installations are running at about 1,800 per day – only a small fraction of householders with solar panels but still costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
And the reality for grid planners and power utilities is that many of the often wealthy individuals and households who can afford to install these subsidised batteries, do not want to make them available to the grid.
Yours sincerely,
Jeffrey COX.
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