Diverse sources, enough reserves key to overcoming supply disruptions: EMA

Pretty much corporate PR over actual relief. When officials who draw some of the highest compensation packages in government reduce energy security to &quot;as long as the lights go on,&quot; it highlights a stark disconnect with daily realities. They love talking up &quot;resilience&quot; and &quot;diversification&quot; while treating affordability as an afterthought, which sounds great in a press release but glosses over how power pricing actually works.<br>Grids don&#39;t bill based on a nice, cozy average—they clear at the marginal unit. When cheap piped gas gets disrupted or knocked out, generators have to scramble for volatile spot LNG or run emergency diesel during a tight global market. That brutal price spike doesn&#39;t get absorbed upstream; it gets blasted straight into business operating costs and household electricity tariffs.<br>If energy security just means keeping the lights on at any price while families and heartland businesses shoulder the inflation, it misses the point. When policy treats cost of living as collateral damage, it makes it all the more important to make better choices at the ballot box.