Australia is already at 19 per cent renewables as at June, and could reach 43 per cent renewables by 2030, just with the state targets in Queensland and Victoria, new data shows.
Australia's electricity grid reached a 19 per cent share of renewable energy in the year to June 30, and with a host of new wind and solar capacity to be added in the next two years will meet its 2030 target for emissions in the electricity sector nine years early.
The latest analysis from The Australia Institute, in its regular energy market audit, is just the latest in a string of reports that highlight how ineffective the Coalition government's emissions target are.
The TAI suggests that the NEG will inspire just a 4 per cent cut in emissions between 2020 and 2030, but in effect this will all be met in the first year or two because of the wave of current investment.
After that, the emissions component of the NEG will be all but useless, because it will already be met. That will make it a ready partner with the reliability obligation, because that will not be triggered – according to the Energy Security Board – because there is no impending reliability issue.
As an argument of progress over business as usual, the NEG looks fairly hopeless. Indeed, many argue that it is worse than nothing because of the potential barriers erected by its sheer complexity, and possibly by the push within the Coalition to build one, and possibly three, new coal-fired generators.
"On current policy settings, the 26% target will be achieved in 2021-22," the report author Hugh Saddler says.
Saddler, like so many others such as Green Energy Markets and Reputex, argues that the NEG could and "must" do much more. He notes that if Queensland meets its renewable energy target of 50 per cent by 2030, the country's electricity sector emissions would have fallen 36 per cent by 2030.
The problem is that the Coalition government's failure to aim for a higher target – because of unrest in the Coalition ranks – passes up an opportunity for cheap abatement in electricity, thanks to the plunging cost of wind and solar, and imposes unneccessary and heavy costs on other industries.
"In the absence of stronger emission reduction targets, the currently booming wind and solar generator construction industry is at risk of completely collapsing after 2021," the report says. (Although RE would add that the corporate and state markets may take up some slack).
The TAI data shows that in the year to June 2018, total renewable generation supplied 15.7 per cent of National Electricity Market generation, and of this variable renewable generators (wind and solar) supplied 7.6 per cent.
The supply from the more than 7GW of rooftop solar on two million homes and businesses took the total renewable shoe of supply to 18.8 per cent.
The TAI report notes that some 584MW wind and 624MW of large-scale solar have been added to the grid so far in 2018 (and some 700MW of rooftop solar), and more is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2018.
"This surge in new capacity is the direct consequence of the renewable industry's "escape" from two years of turmoil created in 2013 by the incoming Abbott government," which led to the reduced …. renewable electricity generation target.
In detail, the share of hydro was 8.0 per cent, well below the record level of 9.0% set in the year to December 2016, but the combined 7.6 per cent share of wind and solar generation was a record, as was the total generation of 14.2 TWh.
The stream of new wind and solar projects has seen generation reach record levels, in terms of both total annual quantity and shares of grid generation, in each successive month for the past six months, a pattern which seems likely to continue for months into the future.
Output from rooftop solar installations has also been growing steadily and in the last 12 months supplied 7.1 TWh, or 3.8 per cent of total supply. Saddler notes that the ACT, Victoria and Queensland governments to define their legislated or proposed renewable energy targets.
The ACT ha a legislated target of 100 per cent renewable supply by 2020. A year ago, its share was just under 30 per cent, but TAI has not calculated its current level, other than to say it is likely to be considerably higher, given the addition of the Sapphire, Coonooer Bridge and Hornsdale wind farms.
Victoria has legislated targets of 25 per cent by 2020 and 40 per cent by 2025 and as at June had an annual share of 18.3 per cent, although this could be higher with the inclusion of small renewable generators, such as landfill gas.
Queensland has a (non-legislated) target of 50 per cent renewable electricity by 2030, but its share in the latest year was just 6.5 per cent – almost all of it rooftop solar – but this should jump in the current year as a large number of utility-scale solar and wind farms connect to the grid and reach full production.
If all three targets are met, the TAI says, Australia will likely source 43 per cent of its electricity supply from renewables, including rooftop solar, by 2030 (see graph above).
It means that the emissions obligation under the NEG on current targets would never be binding. Even if the Victoria Labor government lost power in the state election later this year, and the Coalition dumped the state target as they promise to do, this would still lead to minimal construction under the NEG.
"Should … a new government cancel the VRET, the NEG may be called on to provide about 5 TWh of renewable electricity by 2030 to meet the target.
"This would require about 2,000 MW of new wind and/or solar capacity, additional to that delivered by the LRET, over the ten years between 2020 and 2030.
"To put this into context, the (Clean Energy Regulator's) list of the wind and solar capacity which it expects to be commissioned over the next three years totals around 8,000 MW – that is, four times as much in less than one third of the time.
Looks like someone picked the wrong filters for Figure 7. Rooftop solar includes the values for rooftop solar + hydro.
To suggest that renewable generation capacity addition is only the result of supporting regulation and targets, as this article appears to, seems wrong, given that the recent rapid up-swing of projects has happened without any (federal) direction.
Surely the technological and economic arguments are much stronger, and argue that capacity will continue to be built irrespective of government targets?
When they are willing to take the market price yes you correct.
Agreed! Technology and the market will always decide what happens. The planned closure of old coal fired power stations coupled with the competitive price of RE must surely provide a strong signal for more RE with or without an emissions target. Have we forgotten the "Kodak" experience?
! the IPA LNP wind federally and get up in Victoria and QLD.
Total shout down as much as possible of any new grid build RE.
Coal fired generators built and coal subsidized.
2 Labour gets up federally and in Vic and Qld.
A push for more RE no coal gen built.
Support for Grid scale solar and wind together with PHES.
Which way will the voters move?
Hi John, you ask about the voters. The ones that could be bothered to bone up on Climate policy and on Energy policy very well know the differences between the major parties. But there are plenty of punters that are clueless because they don't do any research and they inevitably fall for the Loud spin jobs peddled by Rupert's newsrags and the radio shock jocks. Looking at the fortnightly polls it is still roughly 50/50. The COAlition with its pre election 'helicopter money' will drag in the punters that look at their hip pocket first ahead of serious long term policy..
Joe I don't think it's ignorance – my conversations on these subjects with voters show most are aware of the central issues but believe the Murdoch rubbish rather than the science because they are made to feel that only Greenies and Chinese State underminers of Western Democracy believe in the SNAFU humans have created. I often use as a more neutral example that of plastic bags: I have dived sites that are very remote from human settlement, and there are points in the ocean 1000s of km away from cities, where we find a slush of plastic bags floating on the surface, we have whales and dolphins and turtles dying of ingesting them, yet in relative terms there's less plastic bags going into the sea than carbon into the atmosphere by several orders of magnitude. There is no doubt of human agency! And just as one bug can kill you, human infestations will kill the earth.
Perhaps humans do not deserve survival on this beautiful orb, but I hope they change course in time.
Oh Hydrophilia, reaching the conclusion that humans are just sophisticated viruses is a point a only reach on a Friday night after a bottle of red and 3 single malts! Then I look at my kids and say f*#k you Rupert, I'm not lying down yet, because you walked out on your birthright and I'm still standing up for mine!
Well, Mike, it's past midnight on Friday, and I'm feeling totally pissed, not from red or single malt – although they have played a role – but I've been researching the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and I wonder what a minority of rational people thought about the descent into the adulation for Hitler by the masses who just wanted some relief from the endless grind of poverty.
And that makes me very worried indeed.
'Der Fuehrer' was in the right place at the right time ( from his point of view ). WW1 and the misery left behind, then the hyperinflation period, the rise again of Nationalism, demonising minority groups and then a 'messiah' type figure emerges promising the better times that the people so desperately wanted. There are some similarities today with the past, America has delivered us / the world Donald J Trump.
This won't help. 14 characteristics of fascism. Many similarities to Oz and the US Conservative Governments.
I stare in disbelief that the political party of "zero regulations" and red tape wants to max out the regulation and complexity meter with implementing a NEG!
It's sad that we have had ten years of policy uncertainty, but going by the graphs, it comes as pleasing relief that the renewable investment market responds well to removal of the bad policy brakes. In that case, it appears that market sentiment is still very strong, and that Australia is a desirable place to invest.Which only draws attention to these inept Australian attempts at introducing bad policy like the NEG … a hard boiled, malignant, diabolical attempt at providing Big Mal with a dubious energy policy legacy.It'll be the energy allegory of changing the local vehicle design rules to legislate that all motorbikes be sold with a mandatory ash tray.
Giles I think you are a pessimist.
By my figures, there are 6.5 GW of committed wind to come on stream in the NEM before 2021. This does not include the monsters like Liverpool Range, Clarke Creek, Ceres, Southern Star and Golden Plains. All the new farms are long blade taller mast types. Using the target CF for Silverton of 44%, (i.e. less than Kiatta at 48%) that is 22-26 TWh. Assuming 1/3rd of the current rooftop solar boom results in reduced grid demand that's another 2 and it seems there is about 6 GW of tracking solar moving through the system that is another 12-15 TWh plus another 2-3 from waste to energy, solar thermal, biomass heat recovery etc so a total of 39-45 TWh. In addition to the current 36 TWh on the NEG that is 73-85 TWh out of 190 or 38 – 45% renewables in the 21/22 financial year.
Funny conversation the other day with a coal mine owner's chief engineer: said he hates solar but realises it makes sense to cover his rehab areas with it!
Is Ceres still a goer? SA has so much wind now and curtailment I can't see the value until we get much more storage or the 2nd interconnector.
Or learn how to to throttle NG plants.
The NG plants can ramp fairly well. It is just AEMO concerned about system strength. (They say) I actually think it is about too many negative periods stuffing the "market".
Maybe a few more batteries will help with system strength.
SA still has a LOT of old meters which need to be manually changed to boost during the day.
"Power of choice" has hand balled meter upgrades/changes to the retailers and it is not going well. I've got a 30 day wait for a meter at a rental. I wonder if they realise how much it is costing them with the disc spinning backwards on a 6.6kWp system!
On the 29/08/17, approval was granted for the Ceres Project's Minor Amendment to the Development Approval. This Approval is comprised of 57 conditions.
Rod. I am not sure any of these projects are goers, they all need significant expenditure on transmission and/or storage. Small plants spread along the existing 22-66 kV grid don't need much of either. My point was that organic growth without monster plants will probably get us much further than anyone particularly the "Malcontent group" imagines.
Hi Peter F, This one includes a submarine HVDC cable directly into an Adelaide substation, and the cable will be possible to transmit power in both directions (if the added connections are made at the the Yorke Peninsula end). From a security of supply point of view add this HVDC cable here is well worth while (provided electra net do not overpay for access). The farm is 600 MW and the two cables are 300 MW each. The farm is paying for the cable.
Thanks Robert for the details. I was unaware of the security benefits for the Yorke peninsula but I suspect that a separate study would be conducted to see whether the DC cable is the best solution.
My Problem with DC cables is that 1. They are both time consuming and expensive to fix when they go wrong, the very long downtime mitigates their security value. Basslink has been down at least six times in its life for almost 10 months in 12 years and has lost money. Cables in the US have also proved very time consuming to fix.
Hi Peter F, The farm has done the study and they are paying for it. All Electric Net would need to do is add a connection locally on Yorke Peninsula and rent the capacity or allow Ceres to sell locally. At this time I would suspect they have done the numbers and there a profit for them.
As for HVDC cables there are 2 cables so security is better than one, when they last did Cook Strait in NZ they put in 4 cables, and they run two as power and one as return. The forth cable is simply a spare. As you say it take a long time to get a cable ship to this end of the world.
I agree with you in terms of locat supply, local storage covering local demand, but weather systems can be statewide so I suspect that we may still need more interconnects and maybe a better backbone (and one fly in the ointment is Japan and it's stated intention to go H2), should we as a country do nothing about that idea, or do we build a system that could be quickly changed to take advantage of the opportunity. I personally have always liked the idea of putting Australian to work rather than exporting the jobs. I like PHES over batteries because there are more jobs for Australians (but they do different jobs in the network so we do need batteries).
Europe and Biomass production will be different in Australia, even percentage wise. Our capacity is less and will always be less. Farms in Europe store animals in barns where as here we rarely house them. We do not have the same concentration of population, or food production (hence waste). In Europe lots of these systems are also CHP where in Australia we do not need the heat.
My current thinking (and I offer a 100% guarantee that I am wrong) is that Bio will be 1% plus or – 0.5% maximum.
As I read this article a very uncomfortable thought came to mind. It is clear we will exceed the 26% emissions target within two years set by the coalition government. The federal government remains adamant the 26% target must be enshrine in law using the NEG. We now have Tony Abbott publicly saying Australia should pull the pin on the Paris accord. Is this a ruse? I believe they want the NEG to get written into law and allow more new RE be installed for the next 18 months. As the percentage increases all manner of reports will be commissioned demonstrating the increase has lead to a drop in reliability (someone will write the report for enough money). Once the target is exceeded we will here calls by the likes of Pauline Hanson at the behests of the Monash group for a new coal fired power station be built to replace the next FF retirement because there is scope to stay above 26% emission reduction. They will have all the excuses under the sun (ark ark) as to why it is necessary using the reliability facet of the NEG. A new shiny FF power station (albeit a dull shade of black) may have a higher reliability then the current ageing clunkers. Scary stuff. I hope I am wrong.
There is always that possibility but as Norske Hydro and Alcoa in Norway are now contracting wind with all the hydro they have available, I am pretty sure that someone like Windlab or Neoen could do a combined wind/solar/storage/demand response deal for Portland or Tomago at less cost than the charge for power from the new coaler.
I just heard on the news Barnaby Joyce is supporting Tony Abbott's position to vote down the NEG. We are in big trouble.
Trouble? Why? The NEG is a terrible scheme, purpose-designed to hinder the growth of renewable energy. If dedicated enemies of renewable energy (Like Abbott and Joyce) vote down this awful scheme, good!
They would have to be really, really stupid to vote it down – they will never see a scheme more suited to their interests – but then …. well … we all know that when God was handing out IQ points, Abbott and Joyce put their hands up to leave the room.
I never thought I would agree with the Mad Monk on anything.
But, I agree, we can do without the Neg in its current form.
I totally agree the NEG is a terrible scheme but it has been designed as a tool to put RE on the back burner. Those who designed this horrid scheme will flog any thing they can to get their way.
If Britain can do it for Benkley then what to stop Australian Pollies doing?
It's the Law that matters (not economics of it).
What a bizarre conclusion. The reason we will meet the target in 2021 is because renewables are being installed at an ever increasing rate despite the policies of the coalition, they are being installed because they are commercially compelling, as the coal fleet ages further and becomes increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain. The renewable industry really is its own worst enemy sometimes. Statements like these suggest that without government incentives no further installations will occur, nothing could be further from the truth, but it feeds into the right wing conspiracy theories perfectly.
There are some positives despite all the political uncertainty. QLD has 4yr terms and the next election is more than three years away….so their 50% target is almost a given.
Labor should prevail next year imo, and finally achieve some order out of the continuing chaos.
Then we have the plethora of businesses turning to green energy to stay competitive, and more batteries, cheaper bills (?), the ACT and NT initiatives, Snowy 2, if done properly, and other things I'm sure. It's unstoppable remember.
NB: Murphy was an optimist.
Hi Steven Gannon, Be careful of Qld, it's a stated target not a legislated target so they can move the goal posts, where as ACT is legislated target and so is Victoria.
There is not enough said about the impact of load sharing, shifting and storage.
If the eastern grid load was flat all day, the numbers are stunning.
There are possibilities rarely discussed that would cut peak requirements by over 30%.
We have to sit and think a bit more informed than the Monash team, but possibilities are going to emerge that will surprise most of us.
Well called Doug – and prices are going to entice major shifts in demand. We haven't begun to see the impact on the demand side as all the focus is on supply. This is not surprising as the daults like Abbott can't imagine a world where we do better rather than bigger.
I do hope that South Australia isn't double counting Hornsdale in its renewables generation since it is contracted to ACT. You can be sure that the NEM aggregates by location, not by deemed supply (which likely doesn't even take place, given the way in which power flows around the grid).
Meanwhile – O ye of little faith! This site loves to tell us that wind and solar are becoming cheaper daily, and can undercut coal and other fuels. If that is so, then the best strategy is to ensure that existing aged coal plant carries on operating to the point where simple natural competition – not government edicts – ensures it is replaced with wind and solar and (large amounts of) storage, with no need for cheerleading. Perhaps there is a showstopper lurking somewhere?
Why shouldn't it be accounted by generation?
Because ACT is claiming it.
Thank you for not answering my question. Evidently Australia doesn't produce any iron ore because China and Japan turn it into steel.
Sure – let's have another industrial revolution, send the kids back into the pits or the mills! Let's drag the inevitable out for as long as possible so that the owners of aging, unreliable, dangerous even, assets can cream the last off it for as long as possible. It helps the few who have been "clever" enough to position themselves, so why should they lose out to the great unwashed? And as the coalers close and leave communities in their dust, let's just accept that as the price of progress, winners and losers. The great Mandala of Life.
The revolution will come if wind and solar prove to be superior technology. Otherwise, it will come if it is forced on the population and proves to be not quite what was promised.
Wind and solar have already proven to be superior technologies. They are small(ish) and highly manufacturable techs – economies of scale, readily deployable tech to anywhere – as distinct from coal and nuclear stations which are honkous great Frankensteins of projects, and are each Frankensteins of cost to the taxpayer.
Abbott and Christensen take note.
If your claim is correct, then wind and solar will take over without any special provisions to help them, such as mandatory purchase of quantities of their output, and ditto for assorted green certificates in various countries. It would make this site redundant – there would be no need to cheerlead and berate measures that scale back their subsidies and privileged position.
Yes they will – with their cost reduction curves and their dispatchable energy storage partnerships. Solar and wind, buddy.
I think you have made a wrong bet on the coal/nuclear model i.e. the Neymar model of World Class football, who was a brilliant player / brilliant actor but in the end he can't bring home the bacon.
Hydro is the only storage that can manage baseload supply. There is no such thing as "dispatchable energy storage" without hydro, and there is no chance of Australia having enough hydro to run the country when the wind stops blowing.
Installing internet controlled water heating and water pumping can reduce the minimum demand by 2-3 GW.
Installing 5 kW/15 kWh batteries at 33% of small customers would also provide twice peak demand, so in practice grid controlled water heating and ice for cool rooms and batteries at every behind the meter solar installation combined with existing hydro would give you all the backup you need with no new pumped hydro.
Hi Peter, I like your optimism! I do agree that smart grid technology offers efficiencies and opportunities, which may help to even out some of the peaks.
I don't agree that current technology solar PV and batteries provide enough energy density to make a step change in commercial applications, and the economics for large scale chemical storage for baseload won't add up for a long time. Then it needs to be charged, at less than unity efficiency, so all batteries are a net load.
I'd like to see more pumped hydro, but it seems the system doesn't reward synchronous dispatchable power in the same way as variable non-synchronous power.
a) most of them will reduce transmission losses by being either close to the load or generator so that I2R losses are minimised. In fact well sited batteries will offset all their internal losses due to saving in transmission losses. Pumped hydro like Snowy II and Battery of the Nation projects will add to transmission losses so net efficiency will be 55-65% vs 95-102% for batteries.
EVs add load to the system, can't see that helping, will probably force more investment in transmission and distribution. Charging managed to suit renewables availability… is this code for "retailers decide when your car gets charged"? Doesn't sound very helpful to the customer.
Battery efficiency vs transmission losses – batteries still have internal losses and will remain a net load. Choosing when to charge and discharge is an advantage and helpful, but still tough to charge when there is no wind and it's already been in use.
Batteries do have fast response, yes, but capacity is the challenge. Synchronous generators respond just fine.
The 90-200s hydro response is to start from zero. Standard synchronous generators already online start responding to frequency immediately – it's inherent in the generators rpm – except for the deadbands mentioned before.
"Hydro is the only storage that can manage baseload supply." For now. But have a look at the rate at which the price of battery storage is falling……..
Going by the above trend – which will continue because of the dual global demands for both EVs and fixed storage – batteries are going to be dirt cheap 13 years from now**. Cheap enough for baseload storage.
** We have 13 years before coal generation starts to significantly drop away.
Batteries as baseload: I reckon you should do this calc for yourself – what capacity battery would be needed to replace Northern Power Station for 24hrs.
Then think about how that would be charged.
7,848,000kWh x $20 = $156 million to build a battery which can supply the same as Northern could have in a 24 hour period.
Now try to justify the Nationals wanting to spend $5 billion of taxpayer dollars to build a couple of coal stations.
I'm not sure about your 63% but ok, let's run with it for 7,848 MWh.
Are you building it now or in the future? I can't agree that you can build something today in future money.
So at $200/kWh, we are around $1.5bn for a single 24hr period.
Now how do you charge it? Remember this is a stand-alone installation. So now you need to add the cost of another power geberator to charge it up. Let's say 80% efficiency, so just to charge the 7848 MWh battery you need to deliver 9810 MWh into it, over some time period during which it is not able to deliver its full capacity.
And while your charging system is devoted to charging the battery, you need another generator to supply the load.
And then in 10-15yrs the battery is coming down it's degradation curve and not able to deliver full capacity.
In short, batteries are a net load, something has to charge them AND supply demand at the same time.
Some engineers probably won't get this, but a new coal or gas plant is a 50 year investment (with 10 of those years needed just to build the thing) so we need to look at the potential future competition using pricing trends extended out over that period to see if our new coal plant can recover the invested capital and turn a profit. We are building in the future with future money.
So just three years after our new coal plant has started to generate power in 2028 following a ten year build (assuming work commences literally tomorrow) it already has some serious competition.
Back to the battery. How do you charge it? A great engineer's question, but the answer is I don't care. I don't care HOW it's charged. I'm just buying power when it's plentiful and cheap, and selling it when it's scarce and expensive. That's called the market, baby. In all probability the grid batteries will be paired with wind and/or solar farms. The round trip efficiencies to charge batteries are not important when the power is being purchased at a time or supplied from a source that is an order of magnitude cheaper than peak electricity pricing. I'm not even going to tell you how extremely cheap wind and solar energy will be by 2031 or you'll be awake all night staring at the ceiling.
In short, this is one of the many reasons why nobody will build another coal power plant in Australia.
Firstly SA already has plenty of power reserves, they make the choice between importing coal or running their own gas purely on price. The storage they do have, has two basic functions, to supply/absorb power in case of a grid shock where they can add 100 MW as fast as 1,000 MW of spinning gas turbines could, the second is to store a little bit of excess wind and solar to reduce the run time of OC units and make the load profile on CC units smoother.
Thus they won't need to build backup storage for some years so today's price is not relevant. Lets compromise on $80 a kWh by the time SA needs it.
Over a 24 hour period solar + new wind turbines will never average less than 12% capacity factor so if we replaced Northern, (about 2 $bn) we could build say 550 MW of wind $900 m, 500 MW of solar $600 m and 6,000 MWh of batteries. Battery systems are running at 90% round trip so we can deliver 2,900 MWh from the generators and 5,400 from the battery more than enough to cover the 24 hour loss of Northern, same capital costs and a quarter of the running costs.
When you refer to capacity factor, do you mean capacity not used, or capacity that is available?
When I use the term availability for wind and solar, I mean capacity that is available due to, say, lack of fuel.
But capacity factor when applied to a coal power station means capacity not used, even if it available. This reduced capacity factor is then at the mercy of decision making, not at the whim of the weather.
Hi itdoesntaddup, Please provide proof of your claims that Australia has any of the following special provision to help them take over!
mandatory purchase of quantities of output?
Tell you what, I might just give you a hand!
In reality what happen was retailer bundled the purchase of the electricity with the purchase of the LGC in long term supply contracts. So current wholesale price is about $90 per MWhr and as a retailer they offered contracts at $55.00 including LGC (Stockyard Hill Wind Farm price). As a retailer you are required to hand in so many LGC and you are free to also on sell the LGC on the open market above your requirements (including the idea that you can pay the penalty and then reclaim it if you think (they already know) that the price of LGC will drop to $0.00 from the current price of about $80.
So the customer pays for the green energy.
So in KISS terms the retailer if they refuse to buy LGC can wait 3 years to buy the LGC at a price of $0.00 and claim the penalty back (one retailer has stated they will make money doing that on it not one or two dollars, it's millions).
So in simple KISS terms a jurno has written that Wind and Solar have all received the $80 for each and every one of the LGC created. That statement is then quoted by IDIOTS as proof that RE is both subsided and too expensive.
Hi Ren Stimpy, and we as in Australians can also manufacture many of the parts of the systems (we do not have to buy everything offshore). Keep jobs in Australia is much better that exporting all the work we can.
Perhaps you could estimate when China will meet its own emission standards, rather than fudging them like VW.
Hi itdoesntadup, go and dip you toe in the water of the GBR and then claim Australia contribution to raising the temperature of the sea is 0.0000. That claim is as good as the claim the CC is a furphy because the Temperature if the top 2000m of the sea has risen since 1955 by a whopping 0.114C and the next 3000m has risen by 0.000C. All perfectly good strawman arguments, accurate and concise (and incredibly selective) just to prove a point.
Forget about the atmosphere where most of the heat and most of the CO2 are released, forget about ice, and the physics that tells me the you live in an economy and not in an environment (I wrote this on the board to some year 13 students about the NOT rules for camp, "We burn everything!" Even they understood you can breath money and you can do not need an environment to live in.
Hi itdoesntaddup, Like Ben you fail again. Generators get paid twice, once to make the electricity and then they get paid for the LGC they create. That the way the Australian Gov wrote the legislation and (Strawman again) 100% correct. However if you as a retailer bundle your price to include the LGC as you buy the electricity where is the LGC money (as a generator you have just handed them over for nothing). What both you and Ben fail to realise is that as a retailer you now have a bunch of LGC and you are free to sell them on the open market (Retailer are the people required to surrender the LGC) and if you paid say $55,00 per MWhr the LGC has a price of say about $80, whom is making a killing on the market place.
So how did ACT contract their electricity, contract price plus LGC, but it does add up, they get the electricity plus they get the LGC (they could be making a killing) but they chose to receive the LGC as part of the contract and they also chose to surrender the LGC. The contract price is below the average wholesale price to protect ACT residents from price rises.
Hi All, Today on the ABC "Landline" program there is a story called "Black Gold".
The story is not about RE per say but it is there in the background. Many people would have no idea how long this story has been going on.
In terms of mass production it started in Israel in 1949 very shortly after they became independent state. In 1962 some medico did a report on Israel using the medical records of 200,000 people on virus or bacterial (excluding any war type injuries, car or bike or falls) sickness. They reported an increase in infections of 0.003%, but one of the medico wrote a dissenting opinion, based on the idea that there had been an increase in the population study group of about 10% (mostly from overseas, and not always in the best of health when they arrived) and that alone was enough for him to say that the figure of 0.003% needed to be reduced.
In 1955 LA in the USA started with primary treatment and they had 24 engines at 1500 Hp making electricity.
In 1995 LA added secondary treatment to all plants.
In 2011 as part of a project I was trying to get going I found Sydney Water Corporation had added 5 plants with primary treatment.
Aerobic sewage plants use an average (about) 1 kWhr to treat sewage per person per day (pumping ,stirring and oxygenation and they can stink).
Anaerobic sewage plants produce about (about) 0.0004 kWhr to treat sewage per person per day (There is no smell with this, and if you can smell odour your are in danger).
Reed beds remove the salts humans produce (Phosphate and Potassium), and you need to harvest the reeds to make space for more growth. Reeds make good mulch (dried in hot sunlight).
Sunlight (or Ultraviolet light globes commonly called Black Lights) destroys the ability of pathogens to reproduce (Sydney Water Corporation use 40 days process, and most Pathogens can not survive that long without oxygen 99.9% however if you do 90 days it goes to 100%).
The fertilizer produced is natural and the best on market (they did give some time frames on usages and their rules and regulation requirements).
The addition of waste food increase power output, example 1 ton of human waste is about 40 kWhr, but 1 ton of old Pizza boxes is about 480 kWhr (it measured in dry solids. Vegetable oils and animal fats are a lot higher production than green leaves or grasses about 80 kWhr to 120 kWhr). All biological materials (except wood) can be used, but given that the reed are high in Phosphate and Potassium, they are better used as mulch.
The article uses the words, "no impending reliability issue" in the same sentence as, "Energy Security Board".
In fact, the Dec17 Health of the National Electricity Market describes the "health of the current reliability of supply in the NEM is critical". And it describes this reliability issue as a combination of retirement of coal generation and renewable penetration.
Ben, the problem is that most people see the future as a linear projection from the past. The only state that has any significant generation security problem is NSW. Queensland, Tasmania and soon SA have spare power capacity running out their ears and they are all building more.
Victoria got through last summer without running its emergency diesels. By next summer it will have about 700 MW of new solar, 300 MW of new wind and 200 MW of new batteries so again its security is improving, plus SA will be importing less as its large solar, upgraded Torrens Island and new high CF wind come on stream.
So power security is improving faster than anyone dared to imagine.
Hi Peter, I agree there is more capacity being built, but this in the form of wind and solar. Implicit in your analysis is the assumption that more renewable capacity equates to more available generation. But this is only partly true, about 35% true to be more accurate.
To paraphrase an old analogy, you can bring a wind farm to the grid, but you can't make it generate!
And there will still be long periods where there is no wind?
And we keep installing taller towers every 20yrs?
Hardly any of the currently proposed PV arrays are tracking.
I suppose we could always turn up Europe and the US examples, where renewable installations have resulted in increased gas power generation.
Even now according to anero.id there are are never any periods where there is no wind and the majority of the wind turbines are older designs. Even the newer ones like Conooer Bridge commissioned in 2016 which is averaging about 45% capacity factor are already superseded. The current version of the same wind turbines is expected to produce 10% more power per year. NREL says 60-65% capacity factors will become common after 2021-22.
Last week there was a period of almost three days where SA wind output was around 1% of installed capacity. It wasn't much better in NSW, VIC or TAS.
SA has1800 MW wind installed for around 1500 MW of demand. The installed wind capacity is set to double.
The quantity of AEMO lack of reserve notices is increasing.
Link to the UK stats for power generation. Note the increase in gas, yes it's because wind and solar are displacing coal, but not one-for-one.
How long do you think that gas turbines will need to be around to fill in the gaps?
How much will they need to charge to recoup operation and maintenance costs?
What will politicians do when the lights go out the first time, and it's just because of the wind?
Last week? wind provided more than 60% of supply in south australia throughout the whole week.
Almost all proposed PV has tracking. 90%.
NSW has over 50 proposed PV projects. 13 of them are nominated to include tracking. I didn't bother checking the other states.
Every single solar farm bigger than 10MW connected this year in NSW has tracking. Every single solar farm in NSW under construction has tracking. The others in the pipeline probably event got close enough to financial close to make an announcement yet. You really do just make stuff up don't you.
What are the projects you are referring to?
Griffith, Parkes, Manildra, Dubbo, Beryl, Coleambally. In Queensland, Sun Metals (124MW), Clare (100MW), ROSS RIVER (100MW), WHITSUNDAY, DAYDREAM, HAMILTON, Kidston, oakey 1, oakey 2, Longreach, Hughenden, the list goes on. ALL TRACKNG. In South australia, the only big solar farm there, Bungala, is tracking, in Victoria, the only big solar farm there, Ganawaara, is tracking. The new ones, Karadoc and Numurkah, are tracking. In WA the first solar farm to be built since 2012, emu downs, is tracking.
Why don't you cite a few 10MW + projects that don't?
Hi Giles, thanks for the info, happy to be wrong on that, tracking is a better option. Perhaps you could ask AEMO to update their data?
The AEMO spreadsheets don't identify all those sites as having tracking eg Parkes, Manildra, Griffith are only listed as "PV Panels".
Ben I think you cop a fair bit of flack with your rather narrow comments about wind and how little is being produced on occasion, which are similar to comments from various ideological objectors of AGW. I don't think there would be many on this site who see some silver bullet to the current power woes in Australia, other than the equivocating LNP growing a pair: wind is an important part of the mix. Jurisdictions like Tas, Norway and some states of Canada, wind is a great adjunct to conventional hydro. Its variability means it, IMO, with largely be a low cost way of "stretching" dispatchable power, especially until the demand side catches up with the benefits of time of use scheduling. Solar OTOH is much more predictable and fits well with diurnal cycle PHES. Batteries fit well with BTM solar since many, perhaps most, households have low demand during the periods of maximum solar. Commercial loads have an ideal chance to use thermal storage to minimise their demand outside solar periods. Models or conceptualisations that assume static load patterns based on today's profiles miss the point, that ubiquitous solar is going to result in extremely low cost power during the day, and demand inevitably will shift to suit.
Hi Mike, I think I cop flak because certain regular commentors here share an anti-social tribal mentality and prefer to play the man instead of the ball.
I don't think it's ideological to refer to wind power as intermittent and to provide examples of that fundamental fact.
This site is very anti-LNP, but this is mostly jumping on the bandwagon, and even this site says in one article "bad government" but says in the next article "record renewable investment". That is plainly partisan political activity (or lobbying, or activism or whatever) and not an example of unbiased reporting, and I think it is fine to question it when it happens. If doing that sends ripples through the groupthink then so be it.
Many people on this site find it impossible to separate criticism of policy from criticism of technology and cannot differentiate a question on the above from climate change denial.
I believe the above summary is indicative of the broader community's abilities to engage in debate, regardless of the topic under discussion and regardless of an individual's perspective!
So, you might call it flak, but unfortunately I think it is merely standard fare.
You might see similar if you frequented a "pro-coal" forum to argue against coal subsidies.
Ben – in my mind it crosses over to ideological if repeated reference is made to the level of wind output, as if it were an important or decisive factor, when clearly it is not. Investors in wind make their decisions eyes open around that fact, purchases of wind PPAs likewise. Having wind available is a significant benefit and its disbenefits well understood and compensated for.
It's also probably quite appropriate to be "anti-LNP" on a site like this, since the LNP has come out with policies that fly in the face of reason or economics, and are not even beneficial to their constituents. The one virtue of the Nationals is that they have been consistently wrong, while the Liberals have flipped flopped all over the place!
I agree that many social media sites have a poor record – I withdrew several years ago from FB for that reason. I also believe people should use their real names and be a bit less closeted about their identity if they wish to be taken serious – having to stand up for what you believe in tends to make you a bit more circumspect about talking rubbish or merely denigrating others. I am a contributor on a mining site so know how partisan such sites can become!
But bottom line is, in my conversations with a wide range of people, including on street stalls, is that energy and the transition to decarbonise it has become very partisan, to the detriment of minimising the negative impacts of that on many people and our economy. And that is definitely something to call out!
Hi Peter F, It seems my friendly STRAWMAN has moved on. Pick a sentence about generation and then ignore your statement just to try and prove he right and your wrong. He specialises in asking a question having taken the meaning out of context. To me this is a good example of a lawyers trick, take a sentence apart to prove that the whole article is wrong. I blocked him because of his persistence in doing just that. Take the sentence "Look Out" yelled at someone with their head out of the window he will set out to prove that someone was out to murder someone because they were told to just look out the window and the next pole would have take their head off.


Each NOFA chapter dedicates programming to aspiring and just-starting farmers, collectively referred to as Beginner Farmers. Through a project supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2010-49400-21847, NOFA-NY, NOFA-VT, NOFA/Mass, NOFA-NJ, CT NOFA and NOFA-NH have been able to explore the needs of Beginner Farmers in their states and expand their programs to better support and serve those needs. Particular emphasis is placed on improving Beginner Farmers' access to education and peer support and networking.
Beginner Farmer Programming is a coordinated regional effort. The chapters of NOFA aim to attract farmers to the Northeast to learn to farm and to provide the environment for this to happen. Furthermore, the NOFA chapters support these Beginner Farmers as they move beyond the apprenticeship and on-farm learning phase into starting up and maintaining successful farm enterprises. Each chapter administers distinct programming to better meet the educational and networking needs within their state.
Contact your local NOFA chapter to learn about beginning farmer opportunities in your state.
Beginning Farmer Programs are supported by The Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2011-49400-30510.


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Q: Share a common file between two git directories I'm trying to build a custom web-app where I maintain two branches - a main and a development for staging. Both are stored as /app-main and /app-dev in our Azure VM server.
I want to maintain a JSON file as a shared resource between the two branches and directories. Our app is in-house and has a very small user base, so I just use the JSON to store user info and auth levels.
Currently if I want to add a user or edit an entry, I make changes to the file in my working branch (dev), commit it, PR and merge with main, and git pull inside both directories in the VM. This is very inefficient, and I'm looking for a more elegant way to execute this workflow.
Can I have a common file shared between the two that can update on all branches when one of them (let's say the JSON in dev) is updated? Or is there a completely different way to approach this?

A: Separate data and logic - move JSON into new special repo, which you'll link to the tree of "main" repo as subdirectory with git subtree
You'll get some headache with past (before split) history after it, but will get  "Modify once" benefit

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Just like the world turns round so are fashion items. You think you have that fashion piece that is not in vogue anymore? Give it time and it will be backing trending. Sometimes I wish I have a house to store my old stuffs so I won't have to buy new ones when it start trending but then it is always good to give out old stuffs to give way for new items into the wardrobe.
I remember days when pleated dress/skirt were tagged as deeper life clothes, people felt it was for the non-socialize people, look where we are now pleated dress/skirt are the main thing now. So without further Ado here are three fashion trends I'm loving lately.
RUFFLES – This one is definitely here to stay, one of the popular fashion items this season. Back in the days we only see ruffles on shirts, tiny little ones around the neck and buttons areas (often seen on work attire). Sometimes the ruffles are bigger and wider which people find to be uncomfortable and difficult to breathe, maybe this was the reason why people stopped this trend. Now ruffles is back with full-force as its adding extra touch of elegance to other outfits such as skirts, gowns and even trousers. You all can see I'm not taking last on this one in this beautiful ruffle dress by no one but @beingdeborah (on instagram).
STONE/PEARLS— I am sure you all must have noticed some pearl fashion trends that are everywhere now, this is another fashion item a lot of designers are incorporating in their designs lately. Pearls go on everything. Pearl and stones were originally used as jewelries but now they are used as embellishment, purely amazing and give extra touch of glam to any outfit. You will even see pearls on shoes.


The Cappadocia Museum will be among the fairy chimneys in an area close to Avanos district.
The Cappadocia region is one of the most important tourism centers in Turkey, and a new one-of-a-kind carved-rock, natural underground museum plans to add another element to this already spectacular region.
Cappadocia Museum, located near the region's famous fairy chimneys in the district of Avanos, will feature a floor carved from tuff, a rock comprised of volcanic ash that rained down in eruptions of Mount Erciyes, Mount Hasan and Güllü Mountain one million years ago.
The construction of the museum kicked off in January after being put out to tender by the Culture and Tourism Ministry. The venue will highlight Anatolian history through exhibitions of ethnographic and thematic works set up in its natural, underground setting.
The museum will have an overall organic feel. Its roof covered in endemic plants hovers over the structure's 50,000-square-meter open area and 7,000-square-meter closed area. There will also be a versatile conference hall, documentary screening rooms, play workshops for children and a research center in addition to the 1,500-square-meter showroom.
In the museum, which has a natural environment on its roof, endemic plants can grow along a 50,000-square-meter open area and 7,000-square-meter closed area.
The museum will be located only 15 minutes from the most-visited centers of the region, such as Göreme Open-Air Museum, Paşabağı, the Zelve Archaeological Site and Uçhisar Castle.
Nevşehir Museum Director and Turkey Representative of the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) Murat Gülyaz told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the museum will contribute to Cappadocia, an area home to a unique culture, valleys covered with fairy chimneys, underground cities, and cultural and religious heritage.
While discussing the ongoing intricate carving process for the new museum, Gülyaz explained that it will be among the most prestigious museums in Turkey and one of the most unique in the world.
He stressed that the museum will add an attraction to Cappadocia after construction is complete. "Our goal is to open for visitors by 2019. It will be one of the most important museums in the world. It is 100 percent natural and built underground. It will be the only museum of its kind," the museum director continued.
Stating there will be archaeological and thematic displays from various periods and fossils dating back millions of years on display, Gülyaz reported that the museum has natural temperature control thanks to its indigenous rock, meaning energy will not be wasted keeping it cool in summer months or to warm in the winter.
Implying the museum will be one of the most prestigious museums in the world, he said: "It is an eco-museum that is in touch with nature. Endemic plants will grow on its roof and no iron or cement were used inside. It is totally natural, and the only example of such a museum in the world. The indoor temperature will be 21 degrees Celsius year-round because the volcanic tuff provides natural insulation. The museum will also have a display of graves and remains. Burial rituals starting from the prehistoric ages to the Ottoman Empire's last years will be exhibited with archaeological findings and thematic presentations. There will also be a natural history section focusing on Cappadocia and featuring displays of fossils dating back 12 million years."
He also said their target audience will be children, who he is sure will enjoy the museum very much. "We will help children learn to love nature and archaeology. One of the most important features of the museum is the endemic plants on its roof. They kind of transform it into an eco-museum," he added.
He also said he visits many museums around the world every year as a representative of the EMYA but pointed out that he has not seen one like the Cappadocia Museum to date.


Summary. An archaeological evaluation (eleven trial-trenches) was carried out on the former Arena Club Leisure Centre, Circular Road East, Colchester as part of Stage 1b pre-planning application work associated with the redevelopment of the site. Part of the site of Colchester's Roman circus (scheduled monument 35614) is located within the northern part of the development site with Roman burials, a kiln, ditches and pits having been recorded both on the site and in the immediate vicinity. Remains associated with the Roman circus were encountered in two of the evaluation trenches (T12-T13) at depths of 0.27-0.39m below current ground level. Trench T12 was positioned over the central barrier, and the shallow remains of a robbed-out wall foundation were identified. Trench T13 was positioned over the southern cavea. The remains of the robbed-out outer cavea wall foundation were identified along with the robbed-out and in situ remains of two north-south walls/wall foundations with metalling in between them. Significantly, these walls/wall foundations represent the remains of a passageway or vomitorium leading to the cavea seating area. The remaining nine trenches were located to the south of the circus. Twenty-one Roman features, predominantly of 2nd- to 3rd-century date, were identified: nine ditches, two ditches/gullies, five pits, four possible inhumation burials and one possible pyre site or bustum. Together with evidence from the stage 1a evaluation, it has been possible to identify two parallel north/south ditches running through the site which probably formed a trackway or droveway leading to another passagway/vomitorium identified in 2005. Other ditches most likely formed field boundaries to the south of the east-west aligned circus. It is, however, notable that several of these ditches were aligned north-west/south-east and north-east/south-west rather than north-south and east-west, and these may belong to the Late Iron Age/early Roman landscape typical of the landscape to the south of Abbey Field principally identified by the new Garrison (Merville Barracks) project. A total of 16 possible inhumation burials or burial related features (five in this current Stage 1b evaluation) have now been recorded during both stages of evaluation. However, as none were fully excavated, more work would be needed (where appropriate depending on development impact) to confirm their identification and ascertain the presence of human skeletal remains and any associated grave goods. Post-medieval features consisted of four ditches and a pit. Four other ditches/gullies are of possible post-medieval/modern date, and a number of concrete beams and services were all associated with the demolished Arena Club building.


This has recently become one of my favorite go-to snacks. I purchased lox last week at a gourmet market here in Manhattan and decided to give 'em a whirl…turns out they're delicious and pack a healthy dose of heart-friendly Omega 3's!
I enjoy this snack with my Tofutti Dairy-Free Cream Cheese, lemon flavored hummus or a dollop of Greek yogurt. However, if you are not lactose intolerant (as I am)…opt for a low fat ricotta cheese or cottage cheese instead. Each of these options pack a nice dose of protein and a serving of dairy! Furthermore, the addition of the dried cherries add a nice sweet punch to each bite, again feel free to experiment and try dried cranberries, dried pears or golden raisins. It's amazing how switching one simple ingredient can alter the taste of this healthy and easy to prepare go-to snack.
Top each cracker/toast/pita with a dollop of Greek yogurt or cream cheese, followed by a slice of lox.
Sprinkle with dried cherries and fresh dill.


Cries, Rob is near but yet far...I wish I could be in Lisbon rigth now!
It's wonderful to see Rob with david Cronenberg..they looked so at ease and happy..having watched them together in Cannes ,you cannot help but noticed that Cronenberg have taken Rob under his wings ..it's amazing..like a father looking after his son:)..I'm certain they will have amazing Cosmopolis premiere in Portugal!!!..can't wait to see the pics..greetings from England!!


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Q: Excel non VBA Array changing cell solution Ok so I ahve too worksheets and I am pulling in data from one worksheet to another I am using array in the form
=TRANSPOSE('Z:\MI 2015\[MIdata.xlsx]Capital'!F452:F462)

Now I my VBA is password protected and to be honest I don't want use VBA
The cells change every 11th cell(from first elememt) for range 10 cells long in array for next row in worksheet to pulled out e.g.
 =TRANSPOSE('Z:\MI 2015\[MIdata.xlsx]Capital'!F463:F473)

is next row in worksheet and so forth in that fashion.
So how can I run a loop to update new cell references to automate this data extract?


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Ypsi votes down controversial Truancy ordinance
May 8, 2008 by Steve Pierce YpsiNews.com
Filed under Breaking News
(May 8, 2008) Ypsilanti City Council voted down the controversial Truancy ordinance. Council at their meeting on April 15th tabled the issue after numerous residents voiced concerns about how it would be applied to students that did not attend Ypsilanti Public Schools.
Police Chief Matt Harshberger said that after further research by the attorney's office, they learned the truancy ordinance was not needed. Harshberger said the Juvenile Court diverts all truancy cases to social services. Therefore, the truancy ordinance would be of no use.
Without further discussion, the truancy ordinance was defeated unanimously by City Council.
It was left unsaid why a similar ordinance, that had already been passed by Ypsilanti Township, was ever approved and why no one from the School district knew how Truancy cases were handled by the county court system.

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This accessory to the E-Z Notes Magnetic Boards (sold separately) is a hands-on approach to help students visualize the abstract concept of rhythm. A 9'' x 12'' insert fits into the E-Z Notes Magnetic Boards and provides four different time signature rows, including 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, and 6/8. The magnetic tile sizes are proportionate to the rhythmic value. Beginners can learn simple rhythmic patterns and advanced students can explore more intricate patterns. The kit includes 40 magnetic tiles printed with different rhythms that align with the blank time signature measures and 2 blank tiles to make your own rhythms. The booklet that is included with the E-Z Notes Magnetic Boards (sold separately) provides some instruction and examples for suggested rhythm patterns and more.


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Foxconn to replace staff with robots
Tue, 2 August 2011 12:07PM
Taiwan IT giant Foxconn - hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants - plans to replace some of its workers with a million robots in the next three years, state media reports.
Foxconn - the world's largest maker of computer components, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia - plans to use one million robots to do "simple" work, China Business News quoted chairman Terry Gou saying.
Gou announced the plan to 10,000 staff at a company event in Shenzhen on Friday, various media reports said.
Foxconn currently has 10,000 robots doing painting, welding and assembly tasks. It will increase that number to 300,000 next year and to one million in 2014, the report said.
A Foxconn spokesman could not be immediately reached by Agence France-Presse for comment.
The Taiwan-based company employs more than one million workers at its Chinese plants, about half of them based in its main facility in the southern city of Shenzhen.
At least 14 workers have died in apparent suicides since last year, most of them in Shenzhen.
Activists blamed the deaths on tough working conditions and have called for better treatment of staff.
Foxconn has been expanding its workforce in other parts of China as it seeks to scale back the size of its Shenzhen plant.
The firm opened a $US2 billion ($A1.83 billion) Chengdu plant in October, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
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We call for an end to the arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Libya after a dramatic increase in the number of people intercepted in the Mediterranean by the EU-supported Libyan Coastguard and disembarked in Libya. At least 11,800 people have been returned to Libya from unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean so far this year according to UN organisations with interceptions in international waters between Italy, Malta and Libya taking place on an almost daily basis. Upon disembarkation, people are transferred to unregulated detention centres along the coast.
With no formal registration or proper record-keeping in place, once people are inside a detention centre there is no way to track what happens to them. Detainees have no option to challenge the lawfulness of their detention or treatment.
With no formal registration or proper record-keeping in place, once people are inside a detention centre there is no way to track what happens to them. Detainees have no option to challenge the lawfulness of their detention or treatment. Evacuation programmes run by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to help refugees and migrants get out of arbitrary detention were scaled up late last year but only help a limited proportion of the total refugee and migrant population in Libya. The principal measure, facilitated by IOM, has primarily consisted in stepping up so-called "voluntary" returns of migrants from detention centres to their countries of origin with around 15,000 people repatriated since November. A positive development, when it allows people trapped in Libya but wanting to return home to do so, however the voluntary nature of these repatriations is questionable given the fact people have no other formal alternative to get out of the detention centres. UNHCR has evacuated just over 1,000 of the most vulnerable refugees in detention but most have been taken to Niger where they urgently await resettlement to other countries.
As a result of increased interceptions at sea, our teams on the ground in Misrata, Khoms and Tripoli report a sharp increase in the number of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers being held in already overcrowded detention centres. In a single day, we recently provided medical assistance to 319 people intercepted at sea and brought to a detention centre in Tripoli, the majority of whom had been held captive by traffickers for several months before trying to cross the Mediterranean. Around Misrata and Khoms, we are treating detainees suffering from second-degree burns, scabies, respiratory infections and dehydration. On one occasion, a group of people intercepted at sea were brought to the detention centre without the clothes on their backs having lost everything at sea.


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Diners in Sydney's A-list suburbs are unknowingly exploiting an underclass of employees who are being grossly underpaid, Fairfax Media has found.
Widespread cash-in-hand payments are resulting in hospitality workers being paid more than a third below the minimum wage, which is currently $15.96 per hour.
Fairfax has established restaurants in Manly, Neutral Bay and the northern beaches are paying employees as little as $10 an hour in cash.
The investigation has found the Sushi Bar Taka in Manly paid employees $10 an hour, Sushi Train in Neutral Bay was paying some employees $13 an hour and a northern beaches restaurant was paying $12 an hour.
With loadings and other entitlements, the workers are missing out on up to half the mandated salary they are entitled to.
A spokesman from Sushi Bar Taka said it was ''not correct anyone was getting $10 an hour" but would not say what the hourly rate was, while a spokesperson at the Sushi Train refused to comment.
An underpaid Sydney hospitality employee, who asked not to be named, was recently burnt by boiling oil at work. The splashing oil hit the employee's arms and face, causing scarring. When the employee took it up with the employer, the manager said the business didn't have insurance. ''It didn't surprise me that they didn't have insurance, when I know they underpay,'' the employee said.
Jacqui Swinburne, the employment solicitor from Redfern Legal Centre, said employees were being ripped off in Sydney restaurants and the fast food industry in a practice that was ''widespread''.
''I have been really shocked by the underpayments,'' Ms Swinburne said, who has worked at the legal centre for 10 years.
Ms Swinburne said owners often targeted international students who were unaware they were being exploited or paid below the minimum wage until they were dismissed.
''Owners are making huge profits while they are exploiting people at the same time,'' she said.
Andrew Edwards, a Fair Work Ombudsman investigator who regularly inspects conditions in restaurants, said it was common to find overseas students in particular working for cash in hand once they reached their 20-hour-per-week limit specified by their visa.
''People find themselves in circumstances where the employer wants to give them more hours, but says 'Let's do it in cash because you've got this visa,''' he said.
But John Hart, chief executive officer of the Restaurant and Catering Australia Association, said it was the restaurant owners who were getting the raw deal, not the employees.
Mr Hart said it was an ''employees' market''.
''They get to choose where they pick work and they get paid incredibly well and that's the way it is."
Mr Hart did however concede that an estimated 50 per cent of businesses were not compliant with regulations.
"They are opting out of the system and if they stay in the system they are going to go broke," he said.
He said it was the smaller, medium restaurants who were not complying.
"The end market... they are the ones under pressure and they are the ones who opt out and they can opt out. They are not in the spotlight."
Among those to complain to the Fair Work Ombudsman, is Yuka Odashima, a Japanese student who until recently worked at the Melbourne Japanese bar and restaurant group behind Nama Nama, Hihou and Izakaya Den.
A recent payslip for the 25-year-old shows she is being paid a flat rate of $15 per hour, plus superannuation.
Ms Odashima said the correct rate, according to the Fair Work Ombudsman, would have been around $21 an hour for much of her work.
She stopped being given shifts soon after this conversation, she said.
Ms Odashima conceded that she often got tips that supplemented her wage.
One of the restaurant group's owners, Simon Denton, said Ms Odashima had not been taken off the group's rosters because she had questioned her pay, but because she was not needed.
And he said his restaurant paid far better than many others. Many of his staff worked for restaurants that had paid them $10 an hour, he said. ''A lot of the people who work for us work for other places for a hell of a lot less,'' he said.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is now assessing the case.


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Citizens of Serbia,
We are bound to be brave when Serbia is disheartened. We are bound to speak the truth in a Serbia in which it is easier to lie to others and to ourselves. We are bound to defend our right
to Serbia in Europe and Europe in Serbia. All of us, citizens of good will, who struggled for a European Serbia from March 9, 1991 to October 5, 2000, are embittered because of all the numerous lost opportunities. We are especially dismayed with the unnecessary and dangerous succumbing of a pro-European government to the anti-European hysteria and strategy that log barricades at two border crossings in northern Kosovo can become the barrier to granting the status of candidate and the date for the beginning of negotiations for Serbia's...
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMISSION'S OPINIONS ON THE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS BY SERBIA
(extract from the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament "Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2011-2012", COM(2011)666)
Brussels, October 12, 2011
In the light of substantial reforms over the last years, Serbia has considerably progressed towards fulfilling the political criteria related to the stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and
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In the autumn of each year the Commission adopts its "Enlargement package" - a set of documents explaining its policy on EU enlargement and reporting on progress achieved in each country. Most importantly, this package includes the Annual Strategy Document which sets out the objectives and prospects for the coming year as well as a summary of the progress made over the last twelve months by each candidate country and potential candidate. In addition to this strategy paper, the package contains the so-called Progress Reports in which the Commission services...
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THE DIVIDED STATES OF EUROPE
By Marko Papic
Europe continues to be engulfed by economic crisis. The global focus returns to Athens on June 28 as Greek parliamentarians debate austerity measures imposed on them by eurozone partners. If the Greeks vote down these measures, Athens will not receive its second bailout, which could create an even worse crisis in Europe and the world. It is important to understand that the crisis is not fundamentally about Greece or even about the indebtedness of the entire currency bloc. After all, Greece represents only...
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SERBIA 2010 PROGRESS REPORT
Enlargement Strategy
and Main Challenges
Brussels, 9 November 2010
Since March 2002, the Commission has reported regularly to the Council and Parliament on progress made by the countries of the Western Balkans region. This progress report largely follows the same structure as in previous years. The report: - briefly describes the relations between Serbia and the Union; - analyses the situation in Serbia in terms of the political criteria for membership; - analyses the situation in...
To the President of the European Council, To the Governments of the EU Member States and Western Balkan countries, To the President of the European Commission, To the President of the European Parliament
INITIATIVE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS FROM WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES
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Your Excellencies,
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from the Western Balkans, strongly believe that the time has come to open a new chapter in relations between the EU and Western Balkan countries. The Sarajevo ministerial meeting is an excellent opportunity to create a...
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/
future-eu/eu-s-new-diplomatic-
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THE EU'S NEW DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
Published: 09 March 2010 |
Introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the European External Action Service (EEAS) is intended to give the Union a greater role in foreign policy. Yet its scope and competences are the subject of fierce debate among EU countries.
- 1 Nov. 1993: Maastricht Treaty defines Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) as second pillar of the EU.
- 1 May 1999: Amsterdam Treaty creates office...
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EU official documents
- Council: Presidency report to the European Council on the EEAS (23 October 2009)
- Council: Report on the implementation of the European Security Strategy (11 December 2008)
- Council: Progress report on the EEAS (9 June 2005)
- European Parliament: Questions to the Council concerning the Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit (1 December 2009)
- Council: Annual report from the Council to the European Parliament on the aspects and basic choices of the CFSP (2008)
- European Parliament: Brok Report on the institutional aspects of setting up the European External Action Service (22 October 2009)...
Brussels, 14.10.2009
Since March 2002, the Commission has reported regularly to the Council and the Parliament on progress made by the countries of the Western Balkans region. This progress report largely follows the same structure as in the previous years. The report:
- briefly describes the relations between Serbia and the Union;
- analyses the situation in Serbia in terms of the political criteria for membership;
- analyses the situation in Serbia on the basis of the...


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Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice's prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as the Pact. The goal of the Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact.
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Gerta Kapllani is a 21-year-old from Albania. Her biggest passions are communication and writing. She is in love with details and feels they are what make the biggest difference in life. She also loves music, travelling, fashion and being classy, and is definitely an animal lover. To Gerta, the safest place in this world are in her mother's arms, where she finds peace and serenity. She considers herself a harmony of contrasts and believes that a beautiful life is composed of big dreams, good music and expensive tastes!


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(Part 1 of 3) The Perry name has a long history in British Isles, but now DNA and some recorded history says their origin is from the Emerald Island. The Perry story [dominated by DNA tribal marker R1b-L513, Subgroup B2] can trace their origins to the Finn Valley in Donegal, Ireland from 50 BCE. Perhaps the journey begins with the Clanna Dedad; Deda, son of Sen or Deda Mac Sin. The Perry surname origin is from Clan Domnaill [DNA Tribe R1b-L513, Subgroup B1] and relations who remain in Ireland take the modern surname (O')Donnelly, McDonald and Donohue in Ireland.
(Part 2 of 3) According to research, the Domnaill name is also found in Brittany, France. It is a very old name which appears in the 5th century Roman inscriptions as Dumnovellaunos in Brittany meaning "Deep Valour" equivalent to Irish Domhnaill. But how could this be? Recent discoveries from DNA testing are unlocking the migration patterns of Celtic tribes as late as 800 CE to 1200 CE. The Perry story begins in pre-history Ireland then moves to Wales where the family can be traced back to their Welsh tribe Cydifor Fawr. An ancestor and many of his kin will then move to Brittany, France during the Dark Ages.
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