7 November

This is why we should be furious with the idiots who spent the past 10 years saying the problem with our energy was supply. 'Baseload' power. Bullshit. This graph shows how much solar and wind energy is TURNED OFF ('curtailed') every day, because there's nowhere for it to go. So much (over 6000 MW, and still growing fast) it would break the grid if left on. We're swimming in energy. Enough to get us through peak hours too, 'when the sun doesn't shine'. It has to be turned off because that government did absolutely nothing to upgrade the grid to use all of this near-free energy. They should be in jail.