Thread: Big storm and no power in SA

Originally Posted by Eevo

fixed for you.

Old Chinese saying:

"It is easier to find the on switch of your Coleman camping lantern than to curse the darkness."

The big battery's charging at 30MW tonight...

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speaking of batteries, the SA one is charging right now
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30MW

Originally Posted by Homestar

Ain’t privatisation Grand! Look how much it’s saved us!

Oh and our price rise in the new year is directly related to Hazelwood closing down - it was producing power for less than .06 cents KWh and profitable whenever it closed.

Not saying closing it wasn’t a good thing by the way, just noting it. We do need to move away from coal and we’ll have to pay for that in the short term, but the long term without buying fossil fuel is a good thing.

hazlewood was closing this year ether to be rebuilt and brought up to standerd or shut down, hazelwood was meant to be shut down after loylang b i think it was (the newist one that was finished mid 90's their), hell hazlewood was orginaly built to run on brickete's before being converted to plasma fired with coal dust sprayed in.
the reason it was closed as it would be more cost effective to build a new power station then rebuild hazlewood that's why their was no saving it

Now don't get me wrong , im all for moving away from using fossil fuels to make electricity, apart from being dirty, there are better uses for such a finite resources.

However, i cant come to grips with the oft repeated claim that today or in the near future they will win on price. Can anyone put forward a reputable source document on this.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf...generation.pdf page 7, shows geothermal still significantly cheaper than solar/wind. And that excludes storage costs to make it reliable/available as needed.
Look at Total Cost LCOE before any tax credits.

I have skin in this game as i am actively looking at battery storage redT energy storage - Maximise Your Energy to minimize our genset usage, and move to Solar if the numbers stack up. So far they stack up to reduce genset hours, but not to install Solar as a replacement.

Originally Posted by lyonsy

hazlewood was closing this year ether to be rebuilt and brought up to standerd or shut down, hazelwood was meant to be shut down after loylang b i think it was (the newist one that was finished mid 90's their), hell hazlewood was orginaly built to run on brickete's before being converted to plasma fired with coal dust sprayed in.
the reason it was closed as it would be more cost effective to build a new power station then rebuild hazlewood that's why their was no saving it

You don’t need to tell me, I used to work there. 😉

Originally Posted by Homestar

You don’t need to tell me, I used to 'work' there. 😉

Fixed it for you Gav.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Fixed it for you Gav.

DL

Ha ha - you ‘work’ for the SEC too...