Energy price crash intensifies

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The gas price remains ridiculous, near $12GJ:

But NEM prices are still tumbling at $56MW/h quarterly average:

The last two months have averaged $43MH/h. As wind and solar power squeeze gas from the system:

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But, futures know what’s coming. Less coal and more gas-fired output leading to higher power costs:

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The renewable pipeline will continue to roll out.

The Albanese Government should be focused on delivering every possible power storage option to support it. Both centralised and decentralised.

Current grid output illustrates in real time that cheap renewable power is entirely possible if it is supported by batteries rather than gas.

It is too stupid.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.