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OT - new carbon tax 2-Mar-2011 At 11:08:41 AM lacto

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labor did not get a mandate to delay a carbon tax to next term, Liberals did not get a mandate not to have a carbon tax the green (yes only one ) had a mandate to introduce a carbon tax and by negotiation has managed to implement this mandate . Scaremongering re the rapidly rising power bills ignores the fact that 90% of the increases are due to rapid escalations in peak demand (airconditioning) versus our ability to generate this power with very slow response time on coal fire plants and high costs of peaking capacity which is really only needed for a few hours a year . Victoria is rushing in smart meters as a way to reflect this cost to consumers but our current generators and grid leave a system that isnt suited to such large variations . If the aluminium smelters stopped in vic and tasmania then 1600 Mw of load would disappear leaving the average victorian demand of 2800 Mw low to 5400 Mw coal capacity is 6500 Mw and cant easily ramp up and down over this range economically .