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OT - new carbon tax 2-Mar-2011 At 3:56:39 PM lacto

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On 2/03/2011 Philtown wrote:
>On 2/03/2011 lacto wrote:
>>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 .
>
>Actually no. All of the increase is due to investment in the distribution
>and transmission infrastructure. In Victoria this is due to 2 things: 1)
>upgrades to tighter specs following the Black Saturday inquiry and 2) past
>underinvestment that the infrastructure owners are catching up on.
>
>In NSW it's all the second one, since prices hardly rose at all for the
>10-15 years previous since no-one was investing in their networks. Now
>their infrastructure is worn out and dying and there's a painful catchup
>period. Blame NSW labor for wanting to keep bills low in the short term.
beg to disagree as on those really hot days there just isnt the generating capacity to supply all demand within the state ,power goes for $10000 Mwh which is $10.00 per kwh which the consumer pays around $0.20 cents so to ensure the business are profitable and just dont shed load a higher price needs to be paid for general use . the distribution system and interconnectors are also run down here . The ZCA2020 report believes all power can be generated by solar, wind and hydro with some bio fuel upgrades 13X2300 Mw solar with salt storage , 50,0000Mw of wind and then all interconnected with an upgrade of HVDC transmission rather than HVAC lines which are more inefficient . It is feasable to do this but what pollie would discard all coal and gas power generators ???