This is to give preliminary notice of our next upcoming meeting, the last for this year. It will be addressed by Trevor Berrill, the extraordinary Sustainable Energy Systems Consultant and Educator.
Trevor will already be familiar to many of you. For he has previously given a number of excellent talks to the 17 Group, notable for their detailed factual basis, cogency of argumentation, and attractiveness of presentation.
The title of this talk will be “The 2022 Energy Crisis & Market Failure in Australia”.
It will take place at 7 pm on Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, in the BrisWest Senior Citizens Centre, at 132 Latrobe Terrace Paddington.
The usual formal notice, ably assisted into existence by Leon, the world’s most interesting posthumous politico-cultural and culturo-political commentator, will go out one week before the meeting.
Here is a brief extract from Trevor’s outline of the talk:
As professor John Quiggin has observed: “The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It’s time the grid returned to public hands.” (Quiggin, The Conversation, 22 June, 2022). Other energy experts have reached similar conclusions. For example, Dr Roger Dargaville, Deputy Director of the Monash Energy Institute, stated that due to privatisation, “the actual focus of the industry is not to be efficient but to maximise shareholder profit (which may involve being more streamlined, but not necessarily). And so the primary role of the energy sector to provide general benefits to Australian residents and businesses has been lost.” ………………….
……While Professor Quiggin states that “Labor’s Rewiring the Nation policy provides a starting point for reform” by investing “directly in the expanded transmission network needed to support the transition to renewable energy”, much more is required, including a return to public ownership and control. The market has failed! Let’s move to a truly clean, affordable and reliable energy system.
To assist in our organising of the event, it would be appreciated if you could use this RSVP link if you are intending to come to the 6th of December talk:
Regards
Dan