The Australian Energy Market Organisation (AEMO) – a body of wind and solar obsessed boffins – is tasked with keeping the lights on in Australia, notwithstanding the chaos delivered by their beloved windmills and solar panels.
Their most publicly visible ‘work’ occurs when they engage in what they euphemistically call “demand management”. Which is just another way of referring to controlled blackouts – increasingly common events that are engineered when the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in, and large power users get cut from the grid.
And when that forced reduction in ‘demand’ isn’t enough to keep the grid from collapsing entirely, they then slash the power supply to whole regions and suburbs. And all this in a notionally first world economy.
Apparently in an effort to come to grips with the power pricing and supply calamity they’ve helped create, AEMO released a report earlier this month, in which they tended to gloss over the effect that the unreliables have had on Australia’s power supply. However, the section extracted below caught STT’s attention.
