The Baseload Podcast

AEMO's Daniel Westerman vs the goat, demonisation of the gas industry and duelling banjo's in Australian (soon to be) nuclear policies. Interview: Catriona Thoolen's local views on Victorian renewable developments

Clare Savage, chair of the Australian Energy Regulator, Daniel Andrews’ misinformation on gas development in Victoria, and the full audio from the nuclear power debate in the Australian Senate, 22 March 2023.

Eraring Power Station - to close or not to close is a question for the next premier of New South Wales, Dr Monique Ryan MP on methane emissions, interview with Maurice Newman.

The national electricity market, and Australian energy policies, look very different at the start of 2023 compared to the start of 2022. My thoughts on how gas, coal and electricity policy should be managed in Australia. How have local consumers navigated a year of very high gas prices? Liddell closure. Conservative politics and energy policy.

Price caps on coal and gas, renewables are cheaper but nobody can explain how this translates into lower bills for consumers, and the subsidy to end all subsidies – how the energy ministers plan to hide the costs of The Transition.

Interview with Tristan Prasser - nuclear energy, the rise of critical thinking about energy systems and who is contributing.

Interview: Adjunct Professor Stephen Wilson, University of Queensland https://energy.uq.edu.au/files/5963/WhatWouldBeRequired-FINAL.pdf

Industry Minister Ed Husic labels the gas industry all ‘glut and greed’, petroleum lobby CEO Samantha McCulloch's missed opportunities, renewables lobbyists Tim Buckley and Simon Holmes a Court, and will the climate alarmists be granted amnesty in the future?

Australia’s energy decline continues unabated. The energy bureaucrats are single-mindedly running the Australian electricity system into the ground with their increasingly desperate attempts to reach arbitrary renewable targets. Clips from AEMC CEO Ben Barr, Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen, Alex Epstein, Michael Shellenberger.

Queensland's 'supergrid' aka how much does it cost to shut down half-a-dozen coal-fired power stations, outright climate alarmism from elites in the US plus a rebuttal from Bjorn Lomborg, and an interview with energy economist Alan Moran.

The theme for today’s episode is interference, both from bureaucrats in markets, and from activist shareholders in the private sector. AGL is a good example of the latter, and we’ll look overseas for precursors to what’s happening in our local energy systems, particularly at Europe and the head of the UN calling for increasing taxes on fossil fuels. And we’ll consider the potential for the largest...

Broken electricity market – the National Electricity Market is destined for even more government intervention Central planning on steroids – bureaucrats out of control A new report by the US DoE – repurposing coal power station sites into nuclear

Electricity market in demise, market suspension, government intervention.

Paul Broad resigns from Snowy Hydro, doesn't hold back on the new federal energy minister Chris Bowen.