Joanna Nova is an award winning science writer from Australia. Author of The Skeptics Handbook with over 200 000 copies distributed and translated by volunteers into 15 languages.

Australia has more energy resources per capita than almost any place on Earth, yet despite that challenge has managed to take out top spot for electricity prices. Find out what it takes to achieve stat-wide blackouts, flying squads of diesel generators, and a tripling of wholesale electricity prices in just five years.