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Aleksandra Bliszczyk

Electricity Prices Are Rising And Now We’re Facing Gas Shortages So Gonna Go Live Under My Doona

Wholesale gas prices spiked this week and market operators have warned Australia is facing a gas shortage as we head into winter. The warning came a week after the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) ordered an increase to the benchmark price of electricity due to low coal supply, among other factors. Meanwhile my fingers are numb because I guess I can’t use my heating anymore. Gas prices rose last week due to what Treasurer Jim Chalmers
called “perfect storm”issued a warninghit 98 per cent capacity

Victoria’s energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said the conditions were unprecedented but that we shouldn’t be worried about shortages just yet.

“While there are obviously some unprecedented conditions impacting the international gas markets, Aemo has said that at the moment the likelihood of a shortfall is sitting at ‘extremely unlikely’,” she said on Thursday.

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