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Just build some solar plants and wind farms and a battery farm - presto problem gone unless Victorians like choking on coal smoke and making climate change worse ? Why is Victoria (the Smart state?) so far behind everyone else ?
Our energy policy is a disgrace.
How? Hey it’s going to be 45 on Friday. Chances are everyone is gonna be using fucking power
How can you have planned outages during the peak demand period? This just one part of thepuzzle though. Aging assets fails indescrinantly, and this has also occurred.
Caught by surprise? Did they know it’s summer
Absolute disgrace. Developing countries often fare better in extreme weather conditions. Politicians should resign over this; stop playing with political 💩 and do your jobs
DefaultSanctions. Energy default should trigger deprivatisation mechanisms to ensure govt guarantee of essential services. We are truly going backwards with NBN and Energy.
Privatizing the state power authorities has been a disaster. Now we have to fluff around periodically to try get a better deal on our power. It’s critical infrastructure and private ownership has proven to chase the $ instead of service combined with value for money. Nationalise
Unfortunate, the amount of money you are taking and it’s unfortunate. Critical infrastructure fails and it’s unfortunate.
How could they be surprised? They knew what the weather was going to be like!
All it takes is for the eastern seaboard to heat up !
I thought the subsidised solar panels ( paid for by taxpayers and non-renewable customers) feeding energy back into the system would eliminate this issue?
AEMO caught by surprise, bullshit, you are not doing your job. Generators failing lack of inspection QA by Lilly Pilly's office. Generators having maintenance during hot months, what a shemozzle. Better supply in Thailand and Indonesia put us to shame. We are a fucking joke.
No bonus for the Chief Exec then for this miscalculation. Who would have thought it would be hot in Australia in summer?
It seems ridiculous with the amount of sunshine we get that we have to have rolling outages to ensure enough elec? It’s like the dark ages.
The core of this goes back to previous governments decades ago. Failure to plan for growth.
He'd be the only one that is surprised.
Hell if they can handle most of what has gone on the last few days, they are well on the way to handling any thing.
Time to put it back into public hands so that electricity is supplied as a service not a profit making asset. Would also allow renewables to be a priority, especially in Victoria.
Hmm - NBN a national joke - privatised energy supplies a disgrace - public transport not capable of taking the pressure off our inadequate road network - what a great place we are in right now
What a base-load of bull!!! Everyone knew the forecast. Get a system that cope with the summer temperature plus 25%. Sick of excuses.
Embarrassed to be an Australian 🇦🇺 these are 3rd world conditions. Time we invested in the infrastructure to meet the demands of a growing population.
Caught by surprise...........LOL. I am looking smarter every day with replies like that.
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