ta545

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   by ta545 4y ago

   Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.
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   by ta545 4y ago

   My understanding is most wind was bought at a guarenteed price by the government at the time of construction, so a wind farm producing 1MWh gets paid say £40 regardless of the cost of electricity on the grid - even if marginal cost was £20&
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   by ta545 4y ago

   It looks like there's just one HVDC interaliand link capable of sending 1.2GW, and dating back to 1964. Why not install 7 more? That would allow the entire current demand for the entire of NZ to come from the south island. 10M USD per
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   by ta545 4y ago

   At some point there will be more bang for buck to increase the north/south capacity. The price they're talking seems to be very low compared with other infrastructure. Sure it takes 6 years to build two 2GW links, so build 4 or 6