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Updated October 15 2016 - 4:55pm, first published October 14 2016 - 4:00pm

Lake Levels

SOME facts, according to my calculations that is, about lake levels and energy. In order to start and end the financial year on the same lake levels in an average rainfall year, we have to find an extra 100MW per month of energy from gas or Basslink, but please not diesel. In a drought year like 2015-2016 (no Basslink) with a monthly input of 350MW of gas in the summer, the lakes will fall to 15 per cent and be at 19 per cent at year-end from a 30 per cent level in July and/or November.

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