Renewables: Fact and fiction.

Renew Economy had an interesting article last week which of course was in Around the Traps.

1. New solar and wind power  are taking market share from coal fired power stations because they have lower costs.
2. This lead to lower wholesale prices
3. Coal powered power station have quite a lot of outages both planned ( servicing the units)  which are gaining in frequency these days and unplanned ( breakdown of units).
4. Less revenue for battery storage
5. Rooftop solar is changing the time of highest demand. It is has changed from the middle of the day to when people get home from work.

Dear me how can all this occur if renewables are so unreliable? It is funny how all those people who so that are silent on the unreliability of coal fired power.

AEMO doesn't think much of the myths.