Guest essay by Eric Worrall
South Australia’s green politicians recently demolished their last coal plant.
Record heat blackouts: Tens of thousands without power across South Australia and Victoria
By Gemma Bath
Lexie Jeuniewic
Nick Pearson
2:03am Jan 25, 2019Tens of thousands were last night sweltering through a blackout on one of the hottest days in history after power was cut across large areas of South Australia and Victoria.
There were 76 outages across Adelaide, affecting more than 28,000 customers during the hottest day in the city’s history.
In Victoria, about 5800 properties were without power on an “oppressive” night of hot and humid weather.
“Crews continue to work through the night – we understand it’s uncomfortable being without power in the heat,” SA Power Networks said on Twitter.
“If your power goes off, turn off all appliances and leave a single switch in the ON position so you know when it’s been restored. Turn appliances on gradually when power is back.”
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Australian Energy Market Operator CEO Audrey Zibelman said an extra 400 megawatts had been added to the grid.
“We are going forward and reactivating our reserve power (of) 400MW of additional energy.”
“The system is being utilised to its maximum – what we need everyone to do is just be aware of that and over this peak period make sure that you are not wasting energy.”
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Not much more to say really. Thanks to the renewable supply duck neck (power only arrives when it isn’t needed), even during optimum weather, renewable electricity is useless for supplying households during heatwaves.
You can have reliable electricity or you can have renewable electricity but you can’t have both.
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This is why the govt wants to control your thermostat remotely. They can set it to a comfortable 30 degrees Celsius for every house to avoid the brownouts.
I assume you attached an invisible sarc tag to that stevek? 30C is too hot for quite a lot of people, especially those of north European origin and especially if there is high humidity.
I do think that governments are responsible for the security of the people. They are guilty of traitorous behaviour if they take any actions that destroy that security. These include undermining the power supply that contributes so much to health and well- being as well as military protection against those who would invade us. To blow up the only coal-fired generators in SA is sabotage, no less, and those who caused it to happen should be punished as traitors for treason affecting the security and well-being of the people. Here in Victoria we are heading down the same path. No, I did not vote for the lefty id1ots who are undermining everything that Australians have represented in the past.
Come on Aussies, wake up to the trait0rs in our midst!
The South Australia blackout was caused by a transformer failure, not a shortage of power availability.
However, the Vics suffered the results of an enlightened government who closed down their coal-fired power stations.
Our Green overlords feel we should be prepared for these outages as saving the planet is more important than running air conditioners
That little fact is conveniently missed out of reports in the MSM, as I am sure you are aware.
I think this shows clear evidence of a power shortage:
http://nemlog.com.au/nem/region/sa1/20190124/20190125/
No operating margin, and prices at the $14,500 limit.
Presumably companies selling emergency generators for domestic use will now see a big increase in sales, to people wealthy enough to afford them and before they are made illegal.
I mentioned before in another thread, recently I have seen small domestic petrol powered generators advertised on TV here in Australia. Someone has seen the future. Every major city in Australia will become another Lagos.
The opportunity to go off grid will only be a temporary option. The left wingers/Greens, have that covered. They will simply make fuel illegal, or so expensive the option will only be available to the political elite or wealthy.
The complete control of everything is their ongoing ambition. The CAGW/Climate Change scare tactic, has proven better than they could have ever wished for. The world’s entire teaching profession has adopted the mantra, fossil fuels are bad green energy is good. All of our children are now brainwashed into progressing that falsehood.
The problem we now have is politicised education. Real education along with the previously noble pursuit of knowledge, has been replaced by green propaganda often aided by narrow focus religious ideology.
We are returning back to the days when those who know the truth are thrown in jail, because their wisdom, is considered dangerous to the elite. The political elite particularly those on the left, now demand their view is the only view. Anyone opposing them gets shouted down, no platformed, alienated, vilified and worse.
Even nations floating of energy wealth are being destroyed by the left wing zealots. Politicians are using environmentalism as their weapon/instrument of control. The objective is, to destroy energy availability and thus destroy wealth/ capitalism.
Think Venezuela, Zimbabwe, South Africa. Soon to be followed by….fill in your own blanks.
In Lagos, users still have to pay a connection fee to the energy provider even though they don’t actually supply any energy. But yes, the greens are determined to return us to the stone age. Then we can burn rocks!
on the pi$$ant house blocks in suburbia finding space to put a genset in?
then the noise and the regs on times it could be run, ie poolpump noise annoyance regs already and a genny make far more racket
petrol at 1.32 a litre is cheap now compared to the 1.47 recently charged
diesels economical but smellier and those generators cost a lot more
gotta admit im looking for an old Lister etc stationary engine so i can run my bore(only water for fire risk if power goes) and my home rainwater supply pump. kero petrol oil whatevers handy can be used.
Touche.
Individuals are not stupid; they protect themselves and their families when they see the propaganda failing.
Dear Australia,
The “greens” are really anti-human, and they will use any scam possible to secure their agenda.
While I don’t wish suffering on anyone, I suspect that until people comprehend the foolishness being foisted on them—and its cost—through their own experiences this same thing will be repeated. Look at the heatwave as a blessing.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Australia is the number 1 exporter of COAL. We don’t want to burn it because of, well you know, climate change, but we have no problem letting the rest of the world burn it. Has the world gone mad? Don’t answer that, obviously it has.
Australia set a record for coal exports in 2018. Let that sink in.
Australia also set a record for the largest single shipment of coal which, IIRC, was in 2016 or 2017.
I heard the AEMO spokesperson on radio yesterday.
“unprecedented heat wave” was one of her comments.
I live in Melbourne (State of Victoria) and this heat wave was one day as far as I am concerned and given that Melbourne uses 90%+ of the power on any given day this was a monumental stuff up. I mean one hot day.
This was all predicted and there poli speak is just unadulterated “carp”.
We Australians are determined to save the world on our own if we have to, even if it kills us.
400 Mw of reserve power? There is no reserve powere. They have the hide to ask industrial users to shut down to boost supply to the grid and call that a ‘reserve’. It’s all in 5he language. Orwellian?
Whenever an electric utility uses “load shedding” in its resource plan, you know you are in trouble. And whenever the politicians tell you there is no problem because the electric utility’s system didn’t collapse because of its load shedding, you are in deeper, uncorrectable trouble.
Dave
As a friend observed
“The best part of this insanity is that when there is a power shortage we shut down our biggest, and very often, exporting manufacturing plants. Just shows the priorities here with the main aim to pull the daggy wool over the eyes of citizens for as long as possible. “
We Australians are determined to save the world on our own if we have to, even if it k1lls us.
“Nearly a billion dollars for electricity for just one day — $500 per family”
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/01/nearly-a-billion-dollars-for-electricity-for-just-one-day-500-per-family/
“Three days and you could buy a HELE plant with the money wasted.”
You better believe it-
http://www.wattclarity.com.au/articles/2019/01/my-first-look-at-the-highs-and-lows-in-victoria-and-south-australia-on-thursday-24th-january-2019/
That’s what happens when you have to pay 9 diesel generators to consume potentially 80,000 litres of diesel an hour, major industrial users of electricity to tell their workers to knock off and power users to pay for the lost production, gas peaking plants to spot bid for every ounce of gas available plus all those millions of Tesla 2170 cells to exhaust themselves at Hornsdale not to mention all hands on deck with heat loading and overtime at the coal stations to add more sticky tape and string.
All because technical illiterates, morons or deliberate liars are Hell bent on disproving a fundamental axiom of engineering, that you can’t build a reliable system from unreliable componentry. They are in complete denial about that now and the only way to redress such idiocy and level the playing field is to legislate that no supplier of electrons to the communal grid can tender anymore electrons than they can reasonably guarantee (ie short of unforeseen mechanical breakdown) 24/7 all year round.
Of course that exposes what is virtually the greatest form of State sponsored dumping for the scam it really is as large scale wind and solar farms would have to invest in storage to up their average tender or partner with thermal and pay them their just insurance premia or some combination of the two. As for the mums and dads with rooftop solar if they can’t guarantee theirs then keep them for themselves or else invest in battery storage but of course then there’d be none to export. That’s what so many wind and solar spruikers are constantly in denial about. The level playing field.
How crazy is this? Given that too many politicians and other rent seekers embrace the warmist propaganda, and accept ( falsely) that the world will end in 12 years time, instead of ensuring reliable energy to run air-conditioning facilities that WORK 24/7, they cut back on reliable energy and replace it with expensive, totally unreliable energy that would cause deaths in hospitals and old age homes. How stupid and mad is that?
Blackouts in South Australia were caused by transformers and substations tripping, not a lack of generation [1] (per original linked news report):
The later “collapse” in Victoria was caused by the breakdown of three coal-fired power stations [2].
Australia’s electricity grid continues to be one of the most fossil fuel intense in the world [3].
Sources:
[1] https://www.9news.com.au/national/2019/01/24/05/54/weather-heatwave-south-australia-victoria-thursday
[2] https://www.9news.com.au/national/2019/01/25/05/50/victoria-sizzles-as-it-waits-for-an-afternoon-reprieve-as-heat-scorches-most-of-the-country
[3]
Well hang on -Victoria seems to have suffered from failures at COAL plants
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/energy-minister-lily-dambrosio-asks-victorians-to-do-our-bit-to-keep-the-lights-on-amid-heatwave/news-story/e0d83b72c1fa2e45b5c5cc25580068c9
“A fifth of Victoria’s typical power supply was offline during Friday’s heatwave after unit failures at coal-fired power stations.
The technical dramas at the ageing generators meant the energy market operator was forced to briefly cut power to tens of thousands of homes in order to prevent widespread blackouts.
As the network was pushed to its limit, Victoria was importing the maximum amount of power from NSW, South Australia and Tasmania, while energy-intensive businesses including the Alcoa smelter powered down.”
I note also it was importing from SA!
and this SA outage was due to substation failure:
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/almost-30000-without-power-in-sa/news-story/c102771913811d9f2b1deb7102dba8c0
I would note also that the duck curve is not going to be a problem given the increasing take up of home battery systems in Australia
Govn’t policy prevents energy operators from conducting any serious maintenance on plants that are, in reality, at the end of their lives. No new coal will ever be installed totally and 100% due to Govn’t energy policy. The Govn’y no realising their policy sux, is now trying to force energy generators like ALG to keep coal plants running.
This will only end in more and more outages and higher and higher costs. Apparently, AU$500 added to energy costs as a result of the outages.
The government is not preventing them from doing maintenance. However the government is telling them that they cannot sign long term power contracts with the utilities. As a result on some days they make money on other days they don’t Yet their labor and maintenance costs are fixed. So when they do sell power they have to sell at a higher price to make up for the days they lost money.
California tried this in 2000 with the additional regulations that a freeze on price the utilities could charge customers. No one was worried about the price freeze because the new system would lower prices. It didn’t. Power prices increased dramatically and despite frequent meetings with governor he did nothing until the utilities field for bankrupt. Then the state started buying power and quickly realized the new market wasn’t working. Which was what everyone was telling them for 6 months. So the state started signing long term power contracts.
Within a couple months power cost were almost down to pre crisis levels. And then a year later it was learned that Enron (a texas company) was manipulating the natural gas and electricity market to make money. Enron later went bankrupt and the Chairman, CEO, cheif finical officer, and Chief accounting officer were convicted of accounting fraud.
Since then california has not seen extriemly high power costs and has drastically increase irenewable generation. Power cost are only increasing a about the rate of inflation.
Australia would probably see a significant improvement in power prices if the day to day market was changed to yearly contracts. This would give the power producers and utilities time to adapt and funds to adapt to the increase in renewables. However doesn’t want to go back to how things were done 20 years ago. Also while no evidence of fraud has been found the market behavior does indicate it might be happening:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-energy-markets-echoes-enron-crisis-california-57123/
Reneweconomy is not a reliable source of information. If there is no Govn’t policy that makes maintaining coal plants unattractive to the company then they would have performed the maintenance.
The reason SA was able to import to Vic was a sudden drop in temperatures overnight. No one needed their air conditioners on Friday in SA. SA’s heat wave was on Thursday when it hit 47 in Adelaide and Vic’s was the following day. It was hot as hell here Thursday in Adelaide. Like walking into a blast furnace when you opened the door.
If only Hazelwood were up and running instead of expensive wind and solar. But legislative decisions by government officials have made it hard to maintain and run coal plants. When priority is given/mandated to renewables, no operator wants to spend money on coal. Get politicians to change the policies and then there will be enough cheap reliable coal power to run the system. In the mean time we get to pay $14,500/mwh on the hottest days of the year.
You neglect to say that a quarter of Victoria’s generation was decommissioned not that long ago and many people warned this would happen.
Griff likes to comment on the Australian energy “crisis” (Yeah, we don’t have a climate crisis) using Google hits, mostly the Guardian though.
Perhaps we should look at facts, rather than newspaper reports.
In South Australia, the wind died overnight on the 24th, from producing 1,325MW to a low of just 98MW just after sundown, forcing the use of emergency diesel generators on top of OCGT (these were imported after the big SA blackout). Regional prices remained at or close to the cap of A$14,500/MWh for 5 hours. Imports to SA were constrained by non-availability form Victoria, and indeed for a hour or so, the diesel generators were effectively providing some support to Victoria. Peak demand met was just over 3.3GW and maintained again for several hours. Whatever the niceties of the claims about shutting down or tripping of transformers in the distribution system, essentially it appears as though supply was limited and demand curtailed.
In Victoria, prices were also clamped close to the cap for the same 5 hours, and wind output was also below par, although the drop was not as dramatic as in SA. Peak demand met was about 9.5GW, somewhat below the 10.2GW peak met on the 25th, strongly suggesting that demand was curtailed. It is not true that Victoria was importing the maximum amount of power: imports from SA were simply not available at anywhere close to the Heywood link capacity on the 24th.
Meanwhile, in largely coal fired Queensland and NSW there were no shortages.
Data source: opennem.org.au
Get this Griff. There are FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED and SIXTEEN 2170 lithium batter cells in Tesla’s cutting edge battery technology Model 3 car to drive it very well for a reasonable distance before it needs charging again but not too often with a supercharger as that compromises their longevity. That’s nice but as a BMW exec noted the industry can build a complete ICE car for the price of said reasonable battery pack and as for that coming down with current lithium battery development ‘never, never, never’ in his words.
We’re supposed to be replacing all the millions of current ICE cars with BEVs like Mr Musks and yet people like you are telling the world that at the same time as fossil fuel use is going to zero useage those very same cutting edge lego bricks will also be used like the biggest collection of them in the world now at Hornsdale in South Australia to smooth both the solar duck curve to moonlight and this roller coaster-
https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy/2019/january
https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy/2018/december
What on earth are you smoking Griff?
Here let me elucidate the nature of those 2170 lego bricks and how they all fit together in the Tesla M3 and that Hornsdale facility for you to really get your head around Griff-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKpn3zflBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUqQZC2dcE
For every Gigafactory they’ll need a Gigadisposal too remember.
Once again, griff is proud of himself for bringing up a subject that was covered and explained in the article itself.
Only, as usual, griff didn’t understand the explanation. Or chose not to.
The Green overlords have big plans for Griff in one of their Gigadisposal factories pulling apart all those spent 2170 lego bricks from their Teslas and Big Batteries for the next Great Leap Forward-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWjG3REOF-M
If Griff earns enough sustainability points he might get to take some half spent ones home to electrify his pushbike.
Griff, I was looking for you to see if you had posted a comment. And of course here you are spouting utter bulsh*t again. Let’s cut to the quick :
1 :For 5 hours onn Thursday 24th from 3:30pm – 8:30pm the 30 minute settlement price was above $13,000 / MWh. And it was mostly above $14,000/ MWh in Victoria and in SA, it was above 12000 / MWh.
From 3:30pm – 5pm of the 24th it stuck at the price limit $14,500 / MWh.
Now that is a huge amount of cash for electrons !!
https://www.aemo.com.au/………
And just who was receiving that Motza of cash for power yesterday ?
Why it was the South Australian government because of the government owned Diesel generators ! Why ? Because your wonderful wind & solar had flopped completely. A few more days like yesterday and there will be no SA budget deficit !
Retail bills for this essential service are going to go up despite any government promises to reduce consumer prices for power
When one looks at the inter connector flows during the peak demand (pricing) period, we knew also the bleeding obvious :
1) Victorian and South Australian demand is highly correlated during extreme heat events
2) Without Hazelwood, Victoria can no longer act as an effective crutch for South Australia
3: Without the Port Augusta coal fired plant since 2016, South Australia cannot provide a stable reliable and cheap electricity supply to South Australians.
http://nemweb.com.au/Report…
The dopey Greenist Labor government that arranged all this for us South Australian thoroughly deserved the spanking it got last March.
And as Labor is still dominated by this Greenist idiocy, Labor needs a good kick in the bum in May national elections. Whatever happened to labor looking after the interests of the working people of Australia ?
And finally we now know that Center Alliance ( your own party ) is actually a Greenist Alliance with no input from it’s mere members at all. It’s all decided by a cabal of three or four folk at the top which includes you Griff…
So rest assured voters in South Australia will be looking out to give your mob a good kick up the arse in may as well.
We will all feel this in our electricity bills. We will be gouged and gouged again & again until the renewable power madness is stopped.
Their public officials should be given the Mussolini light post treatment but without the guns they gave up years ago it will never happen.
And no, it was not “the hottest day in the city’s history”. Luckily, someone at 2GB radio station in Sydney took the time to check temperature records in Adelaide for the past century and found that in early 1930ties, Adelaide had at least one day warmer by 1°C. This is the usual “hottest ever” BS from Bureau of Meteorology.
“History is an over-rated variable.” – BOM
The progressives only look to the future, never to the past.
While I am against renewables, especially windmills, s, such operators should be compelled to have at the base of each windmill a very large battery, at their expense.. Also they should be required again at their cost to build proper towers for their connection to the grid, plus maintance costs to their very long lines.
Then of course we might see some steadier power coming from the renewables.
Of course none of this would happen, as its all “Free Enterprise, which Liberal, conservative govt. approves, and Greens also love as its “Clean”power.
We cannot win.
One really needs to be a bit careful when pushing a barrow for any cause. I live in rural South Australia. It is worth noting that the blackouts yesterday were caused by the deliberate shutting down of power supply to some areas so that transformers were not damaged in the 45 degree C plus heat. It would have been thought prudent by the managers of the system whether power came from coal, gas, wind, solar or nuclear.
By the way, my rural community has its wind generated supply backed up by a battery system. It works well.
The stories you read about of problems with SA’s electricity supply a couple of years ago were largely the result ot extensive storm damage to the distribution network in SA and Victoria.
T
A rural setting, solar, wind and batteries work in small numbers. I lived in rural NZ, the Wairarapa, north of Wellington and was looking at off-grid generation as wind was well in abundance, sun not so much but I had lots of roof space. I then had other priorities and had to move back to the city, Wellington.
Solar, wind and batteries won’t work in a city, even one as small as Wellington, NZ.
A remote rural setting Trevor ?
Yes I think so..
Somewhere where nobody lives maybe ?
so you are Ok and bugger the rest of us ehh !
And my aircon unit has just failed. Looks like the startup capacitor for the compressor is poked. I am glad this happened at the end of the current “heatwave”…looking to spend a day at Westfields tomorrow.
Is there a Govt subsidy for that?
Not in a private rental unit. Oh how I wish I had the same “freedom” as Griff and those Australians that I subsidise their solar and battery installations. Alas I can’t as a tenant and in a block of 14 units (Apartments) where can I install solar panels? On the roof of the block? What about the other 13 units? That would look fairly “top heavy” to me and would act more like a sail in a gentle breeze!
Energy from weather equals freezing in winter, frying in summer.
From Pliocene times throughout our early Pleistocene Era from 2.6 mm years-before-present (YBP), Earth’s plate tectonic dispositions have driven periodic global Ice Ages averaging 102 kiloyears, interspersed with median 12,250-year interglacial epochs such as the Holocene from c. 14,400 YBP (BC 12,400).
On this basis, given the 1,500 year cometary/meteoritic Younger Dryas “cold shock” from BC 10,950 – 9,450, Earth’s Holocene Interglacial Epoch ended 12,250+3,500-14,400 = AD 1350, coincident with Kamchatka’s strato-volcano Kambalny Eruption precipitating a 500-year Little Ice Age (LIA) through 1850/1890. Ending the 500-year Medieval Warm, historian Barbara Tuchman calls this “catastrophic 14th Century” the era “when God slept”.
As “amplitude compression” affects the current 140-year LIA rebound to c. AD 2030 amidst a pending 70-year Grand Solar Minimum similar to that of 1645 – 1715, reducing cyclical fluctuations from 50 years (1940) to forty (1980), thirty (2010), and finally twenty (2030), odds are that any major astro-geophysical event will only aggravate the current 750-year chill-phase (to AD 2100) presaging two miles thick glaciations covering 80% of Earth’s temperate-zone landmasses for nigh 100,000 years.
For the record, Australian researcher Robert Holmes’ peer reviewed Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law (pub. December 2017) definitively refutes any possible CO2 connection to climate variations: Where Temperature T = PM/Rp, any planet’s near-surface global Temperature T equates to its Atmospheric Pressure P times Mean Molar Mass M over its Gas Constant R times Atmospheric Density p.
Accordingly, any individual planet’s Temperature T ∝ PM/p, ie. global atmospheric surface temperature (GAST) is proportional to PM/p, converted to an equation per its Gas Constant reciprocal = 1/R. Applying Holmes’ equation to all planets in Earth’s solar system, zero error-margins attest that there is no empirical or mathematical basis for any “forced” carbon-accumulation factor (CO2) affecting Planet Earth.
I hope the politicians wear this.
Wasn’t there a prior article noting that these Aussies are paying the highest rates in the world? As with most things green, it may be the world’s most expensive, but not expensive enough.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/01/australia-s-soaring-temperatures-cause-mass-power-outages/
Australia’s soaring temperatures cause mass power outages
By Jack Loughran Published Friday, January 25, 2019
Australia’s power grid has suffered a series of outages after record-breaking heat waves and surging use of air conditioners has left power plants struggling to meet demand.
Tens of thousands of Melbourne homes and businesses lost power as air-conditioners combating temperatures of 44C taxed the power supply.
The city on the south coast of Australia was expected to see its hottest day since 7 February 2009 – a day of catastrophic wildfires remembered as Black Saturday.
That day, the temperature soared to 46.4C, with wildfires killing 173 people and razing more than 2,000 homes in Victoria.
To shore up the grid, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) cut power to Alcoa Corp’s Portland aluminium smelter, the biggest consumer in the state of Victoria, for nearly two hours on Thursday evening and on Friday.
Several other businesses also agreed to wind down operations during the period of extraordinary demand.
Wholesale power prices in Victoria hit the market cap of A$14,500 (£7,877) per megawatt-hour (MWh) before midday on Friday, earlier than expected, and were forecast to remain there for the rest of the day, National Electricity Market data showed.
Audrey Zibelman, chief executive of AEMO, which manages the national electricity grid, said three heat-stressed coal-fired generators had failed in Victoria and a fourth was expected to shut down on Friday.
The grid began loading-sharing as temperatures climbed in the early afternoon, with 30,000 households and businesses at a time being switched off for as long as two hours so supply could keep up with demand, she said.
Transmission links from the states of Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia were transferring power to Victoria at full capacity.
“With all of that, however, we found ourselves short…for up to the next two hours,” she said. “We may have to do more over the course of the afternoon, as the demand continues to increase.”
Essential services such as hospitals were quarantined.
The Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne invoked its extreme-heat policy on Thursday and closed the main stadium’s roof during a women’s semi-final.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Rob Sharpe said he would not be surprised if this month becomes Australia’s hottest January on record with heatwave conditions likely to persist.
In South Australia, where power capacity has been beefed up with diesel generators and gas-fired plants over the past two years following a state-wide blackout, 30,000 homes lost power on Thursday after transformers on local power lines overheated and switched off.
“After days of heat, we were in some uncharted territory yesterday with record heat and record load sustained well into the night,” said Paul Roberts, a spokesman for SA Power Networks, the South Australian local distribution network operator.
Over at Jo Nova’s site is a guy that keeps track of electrical production and the Australian grid. On this post from Jo http://joannenova.com.au/2019/01/nearly-a-billion-dollars-for-electricity-for-just-one-day-500-per-family/#comments
He comments:
“TonyfromOz
January 26, 2019 at 7:01 pm · Reply
This is utterly and completely a renewables fail
While renewable supporters would see this as a bold claim to make, it’s absolutely true.
Yesterday, wind power had a day of slightly above average power generation (CF 32%) and yet, all it could deliver across the whole day was 6.14% of what was actually required.
Solar Plant Power, at the best time of the year, Mid Summer only managed 1.69% of what was actually required.
So, Billions and Billions of dollars spent on wind and solar, and it can’t even manage a measly 8% of what is required to run the Country.
Now just imagine if that’s all there’s going to be in the future.”
I do not wish anyone bad luck when their power goes out. However, one really good disaster in a country that has gone whole hog for “green” power might prove instructive for the rest of the world, if not for themselves. I am optimistic that we can learn from experience.