Ohne Wind-, Solar- und Batteriespeicher hätten die australischen Haushalte und Unternehmen den Strompreisen von bis zu 30 US -Dollar/MWh und 80 USD/MWh im Vorjahr ausgesetzt und haben für Haushaltsstromrechnungen geschätzte 155 bis 417 US -Dollar mehr gezahlt.

There are regularly posts online which attempt to manipulate readers by showing a graph of places with expensive electricity, and the amounts of renewables they have. The right wing manipulation is to insinuate that renewables drove those expensive prices, however, these folks purposely ignore reality.

All of those places they show, like Australia, long have had expensive electricity – and that is partially why they chose to go renewables. For instance, Australia has some of the world’s largest volumes of natural gas – relative to the US on a per capita basis – and it COULD be cheap as fuck there. However, Australian energy companies have 100% put their company’s gas industry on the global market – which is 5 times the price of the US domestic market, which is what Australia could have…but doesn’t.

Same as the UK.

So really, this post is to show, that renewables do in fact offer cheaper pricing.

Which is funny, because at the same time that right wing monkeys says renewables make it more expensive – they also complain that renewables don’t work because they drive the cost of electricity to zero during the daytime solar peaks…lots of BS.