Not long back, Port Augusta had a thirty-one year old coal plant generating 520MW. The Premier could have spent $30 million to keep it going. Instead he blew it up, and is spending $650 million to produce 150MW of solar power (on a good day). Per megawatt, it’s 60 times more costly. Per degree Celsius, it will buy global coolness by some number starting with three decimal places of zero.
Solar power is supposed to be competitive with coal, but no private company seems too keen to do this.
Jay Weatherill is choosing to spend nearly $400 per man, woman and child in SA. He’s just taken $1600 from the average family to appease the climate Gods.
Of the 150MW of sacred solar electrons, 125MW will go to the government itself and just 25MW will be left over for non-government customers.
The original Northern Coal Power station employed 250 people. The new solar one will give 700 people a pointless but paid position for three years, after which, only 50 people will have a job at the solar plant, and countless others will be out of work as more businesses close down in South Australia due to the price of […]
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August 14, 2017 at 04:56AM
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