Latest ABC news – the three ABC headlines were all together on the 27Sep18 as shown – I added my annotations as truthfully as I could make them. 
Monthly Archives: September 2018
What is causing Tassie electricity spot prices spiking +$10,000 MWh ?
Just saw this at AEMO – large vers chart
Wave Energy darling hit by relentless engineering realities
Bells ringing on decades of renewables exaggerations and over-optimistic spruiking.
ABC says – Renewable power darling Carnegie Clean Energy hit by a wave of shareholder discontent 22Sep18 comments on other renewables too – ASX info and chart
Daily climate & politics
My updated chart suggests that around 7Sep18 somebody important might have made contact with people running our electricity generators. 
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Restricted NSW coal generation & electricity spot price boom
A reader drew my attention to this extension of Chinese ownership of Australian strategic assets. Here is some more perspective on the deal. Port of Darwin all over again.
ABC exposes wasteful WA Govt. water policies
A rare event for the ABC as Manjimup farmers make the news. Anybody who has been following the issues knows that “our drying climate” and other related slogans have been WA Govt mantra since the introduction of seawater desalination ~2004.
Greens Labor vote crashes too in Wagga Wagga byelection
Alongside the halving of the Liberals vote – both Green and Labor 1st Prefs are well down on their results in the 2015 NSW Election.
I make the Greens vote falling 42% and Labor fell 15.3%. Amazing!!
Report on Maldives from 1837 waxing & waning
Thanks to Siliggy – Has a modern ring to it.
BoM Victoria rain anomalies map downplays rain
Hawkeyed reader Bob has sent in this example of the BoM August rainfall anomaly map for Victoria failing to reflect above average rain at BENDIGO AIRPORT (081123) 51.5 Norm, 56.4 in August , CASTLEMAINE PRISON (088110) 66.4 Norm, 66.6 in August. And then a little further south the anomalies contours make no sense either – DAYLESFORD (088020) 103.0 Norm, 111.4 in August, TRENTHAM (POST OFFICE) (088059) 124.8 Norm, 154.5 in August, and WOODEND (088061) 90.3 Norm, 91.3 in August. 
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The Daylesford daily data shows another type of error with rainfall left unrecorded in the gauge four times during the month – on the 8th the reading covered the previous 6 days. Well water evaporates so Daylesford rain for August was understated. Amazing with so much publicity about drought and wealthy Australia can not read a simple factor like rainfall to a proper standard.
Restricted NSW coal generation & electricity spot price boom
Something for our new Energy Minister to get his brains trust working on. Large version chart
Daily prices from AEMO – In mid June I posted – NSW coal electricity generation strike ends
OpenNem NSW has over 10,000MW installed coal generation yet for example on Friday 31Aug18 peak hour coal gen. barely made 6,000MW while imports were ~2,550MW with price spiking to $235. Where was the other 4,000MW of coal gen.? Dear Minister, Please do what you can to kick some life into all the installed NSW coal generators, thanks, Ozzie voters. Just found this in SMH confirming there were meeting between Feds & States re NEG before and after and on Monday 20 Aug then PM was deposed on Friday 24th
BoM August Outlooks turned out monster fails
The BoM maps tell the story
Max t Outlook entire continent predicted hotter than average (large version)
Real world vast areas cooler than average (large version)
Min t Outlook almost entire continent predicted hotter than average (large version)
Real world way more than half of Oz cooler than average (large version)
ABC coverage glorifying Outlooks as gospel truth
Another ABC article that also goes to our water resources and never mentions “environmental flows” that kneecap our dams
BoM Outlooks – BoM T anomaly maps