Australians face threats of blackouts as energy crisis worsens

Australia’s newly elected government is facing a perfect storm, with rising inflation, food shortages, higher interest rates and now an energy crisis.
The national market operator has seized control of the energy market in an unprecedented intervention to avoid the prospect of widespread power outages.
All parties have warned prices are still set to soar in the coming months.

Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports from Brisbane, Australia.


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[Truthseeker]

In the Sydney winter, people wear layers of cloths to save money from paying for the expensive electricity.

[exxolight]

they said, they want to build the largest solar panel, and sell electricity to Singapore few months back, and now they have blackouts?🤣🤣

[pliskin]

but we have so many renewables and diverse range of energy sources such as coal, lithium and oil! how could we possbily have an energy crisis!?

[ramatgan]

Wonderful. Couldn't have happened to a 'nicer' people!

[robertrichard]

They can just power up to their new nuclear submarines moored at some deep, deep, draft peirs.

[nedludd]

In Australia and elsewhere these shortages seem to be organized by companies looking to pad their bottom lines. Probably in a couple of years we will find that it is the case.

Looking at the photo at the opening, it sort of looks like the Australian electric infrastructure is even worse than that of the US. All those cables look like they are held in place by duck tape. What a total mess.

[jferrie]

Kristen O'Connell would be the ones out out the street demanding expensive green energy

[heresteven]

Send Joe Biden over to help. That should heat things up during the winter.

[collinwhites]

Too much green dogma... Australia needs to move to micro-nuclear as well as solar power. It may be able to transition to hydrogen power as India and several countries in Europe are... but to completely move away from hydrocarbons will take 30 years.

[isa_L]

where are those
"We have tons of Uranium and Coal"

[jayrag]

There us actually too much Oil on the Worldwide market. The only shortage of Oil is from countries that won't buy from Iran or Venezuela or Russia because of USA/EU sanctions.

[ricfermi]

Australia is of no reason for concern whatsoever!

[aluisious]

Aussies let a couple rich guys do this to them. Stop voting for the "business" lackeys.

[peterli]

A very predictable outcome with government's default wack-a-mole solution to every problem without regards for the consequences...

[greg_]

I don't recall Cheap and Easy being part of the horses of the apocalypse. Not to say the world is ending, but I would never have figured that a pandemic leading into World War 3 would be either cheap or easy.

[TK-plcu]

Looks like Australia needs more Australian coal.

[cosmincoco]

i spent some snowy winters, and not always has been t-shirt hot in, like ppl wear sweters or such on xmas, maybe would have been better t-shirt hot, but to wear like jacket inside i think is unbearable, idk what u ppl talking about, i think thats stump and ppl who acttualy don't wanna work.

[Mugairyuiai]

Nobody cares whether strayla has Lecky or not. They'll drink their way through it or, go to Bali. There are more important things to report on than strayla

[BrianMiller-mjxb]

There should be no power problems. It's just the poor leadership there already a person trying to help but they don't want his help.cos there making to much money

[redriver]

Anything to do with Putin's megalomania?