Value Collector
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Selling up to Warren Buffet appears to be the key to longterm stability and lower cost.
Selling up to Warren Buffet appears to be the key to longterm stability and lower cost.So Western Australia has an inefficient publicly owned system. Perhaps privatisation would be key to reducing costs?
Selling up to Warren Buffet appears to be the key to longterm stability and lower cost.
Selling up to Warren Buffet appears to be the key to longterm stability and lower cost.
So Western Australia has an inefficient publicly owned system. Perhaps privatisation would be key to reducing costs?
Actually Rod Simms, chairman of the ACCC, thought so.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/accc-backs-western-power-sale-030152489.html
I personally would have preferred if all electricity supplies were Government owned, as an essential service, but we are way too far down the track for that to happen.
Therefore as was said on here years ago, the service cost will have to be the main price driver, as more and more customers use less and less power.
Yes I understand your helicopter point, but if people don't like your helicopter charges they can drive or take a train, it's not an essential service.
Buffet is going to die sometime and whoever takes over from him may not take such a benevolent attitude.
Governments can always be voted out
West Australians are/were very protective of some things... would ownership of power production, poles and wires be one of those? It certainly helped Labor win last election in QLD by insisting they wouldn't sell or lease that asset base.
Small business is dependent on consumer spending, taking more and more off the consumer, will end up in recession.
as more and more customers use less and less power.
Thats Myth, Consumers are going to be using more power in the years to come and relying on the grid more.
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Just to explain what I meant a bit better, and how much extra electrical demand will come about because of a gradual shift from Diesel/petrel to electrical power.
None if diesel-electric hybrids catch on, .
but you're right Teslas etc are likely to cause a big increase in demand for power and the costs to the grid of these is being swept under the carpet
Electricity is going to take over most forms of energy use eventually, and production will be more and more spread out, the grid is here to stay.
The grid is here to stay because of industrial loads.
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Domestic demand IMO will continue to drop as appliances become more and more efficient and the domestic use of solar/battery increases.
As for electric vehicles, I still think the product we see currently, is nothing like where it will end up.
It won't be a plug in vehicle that takes the massive current injection, that those today use.
My guess is still hydrogen as the future fuel staple, either liquid or fuel cell
Full electric vehicles are going to kill Hybrids over time, especially in transport which access to the grid is widely available e.g. almost everywhere.
It's going to be a long time. Why take the risk of being caught short on volts with an overnight charge time when you can just fill up a hybrid at any garage ?
Range fear is one reason why fully electric cars are going to meet consumer resistance for a long time.
It's going to be a long time. Why take the risk of being caught short on volts with an overnight charge time when you can just fill up a hybrid at any garage ?
Range fear is one reason why fully electric cars are going to meet consumer resistance for a long time.
I'm not so sure of that, the Tesla is an urban trophy car around Brisbane so resistance hasn't really factored yet.
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