Gavin Evans on New Zealand's Looming Electricity Crisis 

Totally agree with you on that

Look at how reliable the grid is in Australia with all of the windmills, working 30%of the time if you are lucky, and solar just waiting for the next big hail storm. If you want reliable electrical supply you either burn gas or coal or you build nuclear power stations. Unless you are a idology nutter there is simply no choice.

Not much good when you get a couple of weeks of fog.

when did stupidity ever get in the way of political ideology

no but it would certainly take a lot of pressure off the grid if households where susidised for solar power

CEO of transpower doesn't mandate building of power stations. Thats all down to the market because as we all know markets allocate scarce goods and services efficiently

good effor though

One can go to the Transpower website and read their plans and download their annual report. As well, approximately 17% of power is lost in what is called "Load Following Power" - that's when there are fluctuations in load e.g.., due to requirements in the early evening as people come home and turn on utilities and gadgets, and, on occasion, new power needs to be added to the grid - e.g., by 'firing up' one of the generators at Huntly... all this is very well known but not acted on with the necessary haste e.g., Transpower has a four-year plan of improving transmission - this published plan is quite inadequate given what we already know about consumer demand (increasing at about 1.25% per year, for the past 20 years (so relatively predictable increases in need) and the slow but steady increase in renewables... I could go on but suffice to say I have written a peer-reviewed thesis on the topic... regarding supply and demand theory - I have a doctorate in that topic so, yeah, I guess you could say I understand...

yeah, who wants to do that?

...oy vey rrubs hands 👏👀

Yep and the stupid thing about that is the UK has loads of wind turbines and thousands of solar panels/farms.

@@kiwiingrid takes a lot of those that dont produce at night or stop if its too windy/not windy enough to replace dozens of 2000 MWatt 24×7 thermals

Who was the dipshit Govt who privatized them.

Turbines not mills

@Rusty_Pickup quite right. Using sails to harness wind, but for different reasons. Wind turbines they are, not wind mills. That hair has been split, time to find another.

Nuclear is perfect for NZ with so much water available, but there would be so much resistance through green misinformation and ignorance.

Nuclear in a land with many hundreds of fault lines? I think not. Yep hydro is the way to go, get it done as the price increases each year.

Bit puzzled, John Key told us it would all be Mum and Dad investors!

@@stephengale1715 Lol They are all sombody's mum and dad. John Key was another genie who popped out of the WEF's oil lamp, along with Ardern and now Luxon.

​@@stephengale1715with what money

@@Winstonsmithsalias you really shouldnt believe everything you are told by dodgy people on the internet, conspiracy stuff about wef is bullshit. Do some proper research. Key was/is a capitalist and wanted to do his mates a good turn.

But happy to put up stinking windmills to destroy the enviroment bloody wankers !!!

SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) are the only sensible green solution, sad we are nuclear free.

@@dave24-73 No our nuclear free legislation only covers weapons

@@MartinCraig-zt2sv I thought it was more than that, if it only covers weapons why aren’t we investing in Small Modular reactors that last 100 years and produce 300 MW and only take up the room of a football field with zero risk of meltdown and one of the greenest forms of energy available on the planet. Wind and solar need parts replaced every 20 years, and fluctuate way to much for our grid, and take up precious land with very low yield in energy.

Totally agree with you about that 👍

@@dave24-73 You tell me. The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 sets out the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone consisting of all New Zealand territory (including ocean territory and airspace) and bans nuclear powered ships from entering into New Zealand waters. It also prohibits the acquisition, stationing and testing of nuclear explosive devices.

Do not let Blackrock into any government dealings

That's nonsensical. China, India and every other country that can are ramping up coal fired power generation. They don't need fancy Western technology to do that. If the UN, all the tut tutting wealthy Western green washers and the world bank were to disappear that would increase. That's reality. China already looks like an industrial revolution British city in winter.

@@ronaldwarren1267 Blackrock owns ANZ 🤔

Ours is $800!!!

Isnt that exactly what Transpower does?

🤔 that last sentence...sadly never a truer set of words.

@@God-Zin-uru Actually I wasnt being critical of Transpower, they estimate usage within a fraction and dispatch loads to match, as well as building managing the delivery network. the on again/off again aluminium smelter usage has delayed a lot of decisions around building generation. Had the smelter packed in then loads of energy is freed up to flood the market, who is going to build an asset that doesnt get used?

@stephengale1715 nice clarification. But I was referring to the original comment ☝️😉

Build more hydro

Global warming doesnt exist...

South Australia often relies on Gas and Diesel .get your facts right

EVs will cause more damage than the problem they are supposed to cure.

Yes but look at your power bill and factor in 30 to 35 cents per kwhr in South Australia due to everything from solar and windmills

@@ala-hc4rx South Australia has the most expensive electricity in Australia