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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 31-Aug-2009 At 10:35:13 PM pete05

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How you can say the MRET is not a subsidy is utter rubbish, it is nothing more, nothing less.
Operators of qualified renewable energys get paid in REC's. Like I stated earlier, why should they, especially wind and solar, who produce undispatchable energy be paid extra for something that is not even being used? it just doesnt add up!
All it does is contribute to higher electricity bills for everyone and for no benefit.
When electricity is generated at night and not even used, it is still counted towards so called "green power" the next day or week, depending on how much was made and REC's generated. Therefor the consumer is not purchasing green power, but is being conned by a system that is set up to earn renewble operators money, but not have any effect on coal generation.
The only way we will stop coal is to use reliable baseload power that can directly replace it.
Wind is basically a paper shufflers delight, make some power one day, sell it a week later, even though it no longer exists.
By the way power consumption was expected to increase, but it has actually fallen due to the current economic climate, yes you would expect it to increase in the future though. I wonder will it be reliable though?