If you like the phrase Baldy, it's yours.Ouch! on the...

If you like the phrase Baldy, it's yours.

Ouch! on the restrictions placed on Kennedy (baldy link above). Obliged to add a synchronous condenser AND no export to the grid until September! A bigger battery would provide that system inertia function vey well, plus the ancillary VCAS benefits.

Wiki for a brief summary on syncons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_condenser

The federal L/NP government in general and Angus Taylor in particular can rot in hell for their deliberate interference in the energy market. Their professed economic stance is for 'creative destruction'; their actions are to protect the dying coal power generators. Why? None of the state governments, L/NP and ALP, share their numbskull Luddite views.

One doesn't have to be a rabid Greenie to be upset by this foolishness.

They are making fresh investment in generation so hard as to be near impossible.

Will Windlab's new owners seek to sell Kennedy, and is IFN interested? It is worth only a fraction of its capital cost.

Ash