Quote Originally Posted by Bobdn View Post
My monster Rinnai gas heater is doing the business at the moment. I'm doing my best to take pressure off the electricity market which appears to be out of control just now.

Burning barrels of oil(edit: diesel) at Whirinaki is expensive!
Burning diesel again today. That's going to hurt the hip pocket

And is a great illustration of the need for thermal to back up renewables. And the more renewables, the more back up that is needed. But I doubt any new thermal plants would get resource consent

Also shows the folly of cancelling Lake Onslow, which would have been the perfect back up for renewables (in 10 years when Huntly rankines are retired)