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PostSubject: ScoMo to save Liddell from the Greenies   ScoMo to save Liddell from the Greenies EmptyTue 15 Sep 2020, 11:25 am

ScoMo is gathering up votes as he gets gassed up about Liddell coal closure.

Everybody knows that weak mouse power renewables COULD NEVER supply the Tomago Aluminium Smelter.

While vast amounts of coal are right there ScoMo is going for gas!  But gas generators can also use HYDROGEN which will become Australia's future energy.


ScoMo to save Liddell from the Greenies Capture

Just look at all that dreadful CO2 steam coming out of those Liddell chimneys!!!!


Is this an admission that renewables can’t hack it?
AMM 13.09.20.  

Well, Well! The penny has finally dropped in that renewable energy can’t supply the required base load electricity. 

To his credit, PM Morrison has said that if the private sector (read foreign ownership) does not build a gas powered plant the government will? The government should build the plant and retain it as an essential industry and start lowering Australia’s expensive electricity costs—something foreign ownership won’t do! On the other hand, is this nothing more than propaganda from Scotty from advertising?

Scott Morrison will back a new Hunter Valley gas power plant to replace the Liddell coal-fired ­station if the private sector fails to lock in investment by April and inject 1000MW of new energy into the national electricity grid. Outlining the biggest shake-up of Australia’s east coast gas market in decades, the Prime Minister will set a seven-month deadline for the private sector to replace the dispatchable energy lost in 2023 when Liddell closes.



Power up or we build gas plant: Scott Morrison
Source: Geoff Chambers, News Corp

In a major pre-budget speech in Newcastle on Tuesday, Mr Morrison will position gas as the centrepiece of his economic ­recovery plan and commit to ­establishing an Australian gas distribution hub similar to the successful Henry Hub in the US.

Unlocking gas supply, investing in new pipelines and fast-tracking interconnectors between states will lead the Morrison government’s gas-fired recovery plan, with an initial $52.9m allocated in the October 6 budget.

Mr Morrison said delivering more local gas at internationally competitive prices was critical in firing the nation’s economic ­recovery and supporting the manufacturing sector, which ­employs more than 850,000 Australians. “We’ll work with industry to deliver a gas hub for Australia that will ensure households and businesses enjoy the benefits of our abundant local gas while we hold our position as one of the top global liquefied natural gas exporters,” Mr Morrison said.

“Our competitive advantage has always been based on ­affordable, reliable energy. As we turn to our economic recovery from COVID-19, affordable gas will play a central role in ­re-­establishing the strong economy we need for jobs growth, funding government services and opportunities for all.”

In addition to expanding Queensland’s Wallumbilla site as Australia’s major new gas hub, the Morrison government will spend $28.3m on five strategic plans covering the Beetaloo, North Bowen and Galilee basins. The Australian gas hub will be set up to deliver an “open, transparent and liquid gas trading system”.

With the LNG export market valued at $49bn last year, the government is pushing the private sector to invest in the gas market and nation-building projects.
If the private sector doesn’t act, the government will seek to underwrite projects, streamline approvals and establish a special purpose vehicle with a capped government contribution.
Mr Morrison also warned the government won’t risk the affordability and reliability of the NSW energy system and would intervene if forced after AGL last month flagged plans to build a grid-scale battery system at the Liddell site.

The government’s Liddell taskforce found closing the plant without adequate dispatchable replacement capacity risked prices rising by about 30 per cent over two years, increasing to $80 per MWh in 2024 and $105 by the end of the decade.

After years of clashes with AGL over Liddell, the Morrison government is giving the private ­sector until the end of April to ­deliver 1000MW of dispatchable capacity with a generation commitment in place by the 2023-24 summer. With the government-owned Snowy Hydro developing options to build a gas generator in the Hunter Valley at Kurri Kurri, ­Energy Minister Angus Taylor said the market had a “clear obligation” as an essential service to step up. Mr Taylor said that, since 2010, investment in dispatchable energy had “slowed to a trickle”, with about 1.6GW of capacity added to the NEM.

The Morrison government has plans to expand Queensland’s Wallumbilla site.

“Over the last decade, the private sector has not built a single new reliable power plant in NSW,” he said. “And in the five years since the closure of Liddell was first announced, the private sector has only committed to a single dispatchable generation expansion — a 100MW addition to the existing Bayswater plant. This falls far short of what is required.”

The Liddell taskforce investigated the impacts of the power station’s closure on large industrial users including the Tomago aluminium smelter, which employs more than 1800 full-time workers and produces 25 per cent of Australia’s aluminium.

The government is considering changes to energy laws for Tomago and other large industrial firms that support the stability of the electricity system, compensating them for providing grid services and emergency reserves.

The national gas-led recovery plan, which was guided by a report prepared by COVID-19 Commission special adviser Andrew Liveris, will set new supply targets with states and territories and enforce “use it or lose it” requirements on gas licences. To avoid gas supply shortfalls, the government will pursue new agreements with the three east coast LNG exporters and explore options for a domestic gas reservation scheme despite protests from industry groups.

The $10.9m National Gas Infrastructure Plan will identify priority pipelines and critical transport infrastructure, and ­advice on when the government will need to step in when the ­private sector fails to invest. The Australian understands the government will not hesitate in intervening and taking over gas pipeline upgrades if companies baulk on investment.

The government will also pursue reforms around the regulation of pipeline infrastructure to promote “competition and transparency” and support work on a “dynamic secondary pipeline ­capacity market”.
The government will also work with the states to fast-track the Marinus Link, Project Energy Connect and VNI interconnectors under a $250m program, in ­addition to work already being done to accelerate the HumeLink and QNI interconnectors.

Mr Morrison said those links would help put downward pressure on prices, shore up the reliability of the energy grid and create more than 4000 jobs. Resources Minister Keith Pitt said the plan was aimed at encouraging investment to unlock Australia’s “vast resources potential”.

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https://morningmail.org/is-this-an-admission-that-renewables-cant-hack-it/#more-121059


{ 8 comments…}
Ozman 15/09/2020, 6:58 am
Sometimes there is a glimmer of hope from Morrison. He still needs to get some backbone.

Maybe Morrison ought to read the book of Proverbs. Some sage advice there.

The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace. (Proverbs 3:35)

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. (Proverbs 19:15)

Government departments need to do something productive that feeds and clothes and houses people, which means providing energy and all the other necessary requisites to sustain a healthy and prosperous life, not be sloths living it up at the expense of the working class who pay for their inflated wages, lurks and perks.


Red 15/09/2020, 8:19 am
Agree.
However, while the public service continues its policy of promoting failures instead of terminating them Australia will continue to fail. Cant hurt their feelings now, can we??
Promote them instead…laughable policy from Administration Tribunals, Human Rights and Unions.

One I know of rose to Level 5 in Health in Canberra by gas-lighting ALL the excellent staff, getting others onto them in packs so she could not be called a bully, and covered up terrible abuses.
The reward…$$$$$.

A disease has spread through the public service and public service is no longer its focus. Mates rates only.

We need a change and sack these idiots!
We need people who read & understand what is happening overseas with sun & wind failures, not people who only read their pay slips and agreements on entitlements.

Uber 15/09/2020, 8:05 am
This is idiotic. Where will the gas come from? There is coal right at the doorstep.

Albert 15/09/2020, 8:33 am
The gas comes from the various parliament houses we have scattered around the country.

Cliff 15/09/2020, 8:30 am
Oh that he would bite the bullet and get real and put in some nuclear power stations.

Notice I didn’t say “that he would say that he would put in” but actually “put some in”, for, when it comes to politicians’ promises, there’s a gulf so wide between saying and actually doing that it’s unbridgeable.

Popular Front 15/09/2020, 8:38 am
I’ll believe it when I see construction begin, until then it is just a press statement and governments are good at doing that – announce something BIG! and then do nothing.

Besides, if the Australian voters act with their usual bloody-minded stupidity and elect the ALP rabble, Labor will immediately shitcan the whole project simply because the L/NP proposed it and they didn’t. It is what they always do.

In the meantime, we’ll keep exporting our LNG at giveaway prices to countries who can’t believe their good fortune and our business naivete.

Lorraine 15/09/2020, 9:21 am
Well I guess its the next best thing to a coal fired power station at least they can pass it by the Greens as a transition fuel.

Ian A 15/09/2020, 9:43 am
Yeah, photovoltaics aren’t much good without a battery. Lots of PV without storage isn’t that useful. Once you have both, the equation changes. I prefer controlling my own power source, just as I prefer owning my own tools than getting them from some community workshop, and prefer watching my own TV than going to some social club for it. If I can go independent I will. Call me a cranky old fart, that’s just me.
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