Sydney go on your rooftops and save power for 3 million new immigrants
The latest report “Integrated System Plan” of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) assumes that power consumption on Australia’s East Coast will stay rather flat despite government engineered immigration resulting in a population growth of 1.5% pa. This implies a call on all existing electricity consumers to save and provide power for all newcomers.
Let’s first have a look at what is happening with power supplies.
On Monday 16th July 2018, at 18:30, in the middle of winter with a temperature of 12.6 ֯C, total NSW power demand reached almost 12 GW, 300 GW short of 12.3 MW experienced in summer on 7/1/2018 at 16:30.
Fig 1: NSW power demand vs wholesale electricity prices
Before and during peak demands we see the spiking of electricity prices The average prices including peaks are 30% higher than the average price without the peaks.
Fig 2: Composition of residential electricity bills
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-18/components-of-average-power-bill/10010484
The peak demand drives up the wholesale electricity component of bills for residential customers. What do Federal and State government do about it? The Feds are running an ambitious immigration program and the States are approving massive, energy consuming apartment projects.
Fig 3: Polyhorizon, “First highrise opens” Northern District Times 13 June 2018
These structures push up peak demand as shown in this graph of the Parramatta Council:
Fig 4: Peak demand of skyscrapers
Now back to the data for the 16th July 2018. NSW black coal power generation was around 7.6 GW and power imports from Queensland and Victoria 1.9 GW. In the previous week, on Thursday 12 July 2018, imports reached a whopping 2.2 GW. It is crystal clear that NSW is the Premier energy guzzler State in Australia and utterly dependent on power (and also gas) from neighbouring States.
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