Love WA. really!
the power side is interesting. Looks like a Spain event may be coming up with multiple short-sighted issues coming up. The coal dramas and now gas!
Chief among them, he said, was the way in which renewable energy could force out virtually all other generators when the sun was shining and the wind was blowing.
A Gomer Pyle moment?Financial woes mount
Mr Porter said this presented a major problem for thermal generators such as coal and gas plants, which still provided most of the so-called essential system services that kept the grid stable and reliable.
To maintain those services, he said the market had been redesigned to ensure market players were better paid for providing them.
The problem was, he said, payments only benefited some generators and not others such as Newgen, even though the costs were spread across all market players.
"I'm surprised that this would affect a gas generator," he said.
