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Originally posted by LoadedDog: ↑

Tas, which once promoted themselves as "the battery of the nation", has taken a combined cycle gas turbine out of 5 yrs of mothballs to be generating flat out for a couple of weeks now. Now I'm a fan boy of hydro but it was never intended to be base load. I remember looking over the shoulder of the control room operator at Kareeya and he was beaming: They had generated 110% for the month.

Some old and discredited brown coal power stations in Vic are still doin OK. Loy Yang B has been flat out for months, and cut the crap, it is CONSISTENTLY cheap power.

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Hydro worked as Base load in Tasmania, although it did still require a gas fired backup because it doesn't always rain. The problems began when they connected it to the mainland and started exporting power
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