Energy regulators had their hands full keeping the lights on this week – but the next crisis might n
Aemo was still issuing alerts on Saturday morning as system reaches limit The energy regulator was forced to again intervene in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia despite earlier saying that supplies over the weekend seemed to be assured. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP In another guise, a generation ago, this columnist regularly huddled with the US ambassador to Mongolia, watching as that country’s main power plant came close to running out of coal. It was an outcome
Energy market turmoil: Snowy Hydro delayed until 2028 while coal plants run at half capacity
Cold snap and gas shortages spike electricity prices amid multiple outages at coal-fired power stations Snowy Hydro’s Snowy 2.0 renewable energy pumped hydro project, due online by 2026, may not be operational before 2028, according to the Australian Financial Review. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Australia’s troubled energy market has been thrown into fresh turmoil, with the country’s biggest electricity generator’s coal plants running at just over half of capacity and the coun
