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OT: Plebiscite 23-Jun-2011 At 5:38:24 PM evanbb

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On 23/06/2011 maxdacat wrote:
>On 23/06/2011 evanbb wrote:
>>On 22/06/2011 maxdacat wrote:
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>>The Newcastle Alcoa plant uses 27% of NSW grid energy.
>
>Sounds high and I'm not sure where the figure comes from. I can see that
>the Tomago plant seems to think they are the state's biggest energy customer:
>
>http://www.aemc.gov.au/Media/docs/Tomago%20Aluminium%20Company-8f179498-862b-4f36-a472-db
>6b62aa90f-0.pdf
>
>at 850 MW. Total NSW installed capacity is 18,000 MW
>
>http://www.dtiris.nsw.gov.au/energy/electricity/generation
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>so this smelter's share at least is about 5%. Figures seem quite hard
>to come buy (ie i am mixing useage and installed capacity in the same equation)
>and as you point out the smelter's business model depends on cheap power.
> This really means a subsidy from consumers such as ourselves. Would be
>good to have better information about the true cost of these operations
>but I did come across a good paper although it is from 2002
>
>https://www.tai.org.au/documents/dp_fulltext/DP44.pdf
>

You know there's a difference between capacity and energy use right?