In addition to being tone-deaf and/or incompetent on basically every big-ticket issue facing us, our (AU) power grid (mis)management is almost on a par with the

In addition to being tone-deaf and/or incompetent on basically every big-ticket issue facing us, our (AU) power grid (mis)management is almost on a par with the US's E[R]COT debacle ... just stretched out over a few more decades, so it's harder to notice. This story from 2014 [0] describes a sequence of events that could, if you were feeling sanguine, be attributed to generic incompetence, even if they smell more like congenital corruption. In any case, AU citizens pay a bucketload for power, way more than it costs to generate (domestically). Combine that with active disincentives at the large-scale (to develop sensible power generation / storage systems) and small-scale (witness the recent regularly change [1] to allow primarily fossil-fuel based power companies to charge residential solar subscribers a fee to feed-in power). [0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jess-hill/power-corrupts https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jes... [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/power-companies-to-charge-solar-owners-for-exporting-to-grid/100368588 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/power-companies-to-ch...