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Aviva wants all users to pay for line between Pinjar and Geraldton to a dual circuit 330kV to enable its 400MW Coolimba power station from 2012

Aviva wanted all users across the whole of the South West to pay for the up-grade of the main trunk line between Pinjar and Geraldton, to a dual circuit 330kV system, to enable its Coolimba power station, as well as other potential generation projects in the Mid-West region

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Carbon-gas swap: Aviva plan gives CO2 to Arc so Arc can pump up more more oil, and Arc gives gas to Aviva so it can freeze CO2

Aviva planned an electricity plant in a coal field in the middle of an Arc gas field 20 km north of Perth, in Western Australia and this had lead to a meeting of minds

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Financial chaos in Western Australia electricity corporations; Synergy, Verve, Western Power, Synergy

Western Australia residential retail tariffs were not enough to allow retailer Synergy to pay an appropriate price for generation supply to Verve Energy, as evidenced by Verve Energy's negative profitability, the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia was told.

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Hidden extra subsidy: Synergy and Verve Energy pay lower rate for access to Western Power's networks than other retailers and generators

The state-owned Synergy, Verve Energy, and Western Power were distorted enterprises which operated under complex secret terms.

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Government surprised: Western Australian State generator group, Verve Energy 2007/08 short $86 million after unforecast spike in network and fuel costs.

Verve Energy had asked for an emergency bail out for 2007/08 on top of existing transmission concessions and cross subsidies despite its low coal and gas costs

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Why does Western Australia government blame rising gas and coal costs for big electricity price rises when State as long term, low stable price contracts?

The Western Australia Minister for Energy said the wholesale prices for tariffs for contestable customers were based on new entrant prices (i.e. market-based gas and coal prices) and not the actual contract value. But “The benefits of Verve Energy's low-cost gas and coal contracts were ...reflected in the final tariff forecasts for non-contestable customers”.

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Western Australia Parliament House cuts electricity 17.5 per cent by reducing lighting and air conditioning

Western Australian voluntary demand side was reported at Kings Park, the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

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Howard era residue: response plans for terrorist attacks on a Western Australia gas installations, but none for industrial events

Two weeks after gas crisis Western Australia Premier appeared on TV: asks homes to dim lights, take shorter showers and turn off gas space heaters

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Australian Energy Regulator takes over South Australia electricity distribution rules with ETSA Utilities' next revenue set at July 2010

The passage of the national gas law through the South Australian parliament will enable the AER to commence its responsibilities in relation to the economic regulation of gas distribution systems.

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Queensland coal mine inspectors have incentive to go easy on mines; when mine job offers doubled salary at $200,000 pa warns Ombudsman

The Queensland Ombudsman told Dan Hunt, Director-General of Mines and Energy, a QMI inspector could, without great difficulty, almost double his or her salary by moving to a position with a mine operator.

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Energy made 69.6 per cent of Australia’s emissions in 2006; a 47.3 rise, spurred by startling black coal increase in the NEM

The June 2008 release of the 2006 National Greenhouse Accounts reported the largest sectoral increase in greenhouse gas emissions over the 1990 to 2006 period, of 47.3 per cent (92.2 Mt CO2-e), occurred in the stationary energy sector.

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Failure of the greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme to contain greenhouse gas emissions from the State's electricity generators: Greens

In 2005-06—the last period for which reported data is available—emissions grew at a shocking 2.6 per cent. The release this week of the State and Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2006 sounds the alarm bell on the failure of the current energy policies of the New South Wales Government and warns of the disastrous consequences of privatisation of the electricity industry.

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