The South Australia energy disaster
Posted: Thu 09 Feb 2017, 19:12:36
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With 2 major black-outs in in 5 months and 6 load shedding of regional supply in one year,
the South Australians are quite irate .
From the "Advertiser" the local paper
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 449f1cb2d6
the first black out was caused by too much wind , the second by not enough .
The State government went heavily into renewable , with subsidies for individual panels and windmills
the majority of generation is produced by gas turbines
a large amount of complementary power would be imported from others State through the dual inter-connector line
two coal fired power stations were driven out of business
Then things went wrong , in September , high winds caused the wind mills to feather down to zero , some line were damaged and one of the inter-connector was down .
two days ago a predictable heat wave struck ( this is Australia , the sunburn country )
the State authority decide which generators get to switch on , those idiots though they could wing through it and didn't request a gas plant to come on line to save some money .
At sunset , with no wind whatsoever , the solar output dropped to zero , the inter-connector had no power to give as the others States were having high demand of their own .
The local government blame the national energy authority , which answers that they are not in the business of rationing
only of co-coordinating standards and prices ,
They also blame the Federal government who answers that they are incompetent and blinkered ,
playing the green card to be elected and too cheap to set up a decent grid and too hypocritical to mention that they import a lot of brown coal power , the dirtiest kind
While the voters are angry , the industry ,dairies and businesses are frothing at the mouth
for them it's not an inconvenience it's a major financial cost ,
several have flagged their intention to relocate from job deprived S.A. to States who are more mindful of their needs
As a longer heat wave is forecast in the coming days ,things looks grim ,
Both New South Wales and Victoria have informed the Federal authority that they will barely be able to supply their own market and have no power to trade .
With 2 major black-outs in in 5 months and 6 load shedding of regional supply in one year,
the South Australians are quite irate .
From the "Advertiser" the local paper
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 449f1cb2d6
the first black out was caused by too much wind , the second by not enough .
The State government went heavily into renewable , with subsidies for individual panels and windmills
the majority of generation is produced by gas turbines
a large amount of complementary power would be imported from others State through the dual inter-connector line
two coal fired power stations were driven out of business
Then things went wrong , in September , high winds caused the wind mills to feather down to zero , some line were damaged and one of the inter-connector was down .
two days ago a predictable heat wave struck ( this is Australia , the sunburn country )
the State authority decide which generators get to switch on , those idiots though they could wing through it and didn't request a gas plant to come on line to save some money .
At sunset , with no wind whatsoever , the solar output dropped to zero , the inter-connector had no power to give as the others States were having high demand of their own .
The local government blame the national energy authority , which answers that they are not in the business of rationing
only of co-coordinating standards and prices ,
They also blame the Federal government who answers that they are incompetent and blinkered ,
playing the green card to be elected and too cheap to set up a decent grid and too hypocritical to mention that they import a lot of brown coal power , the dirtiest kind
While the voters are angry , the industry ,dairies and businesses are frothing at the mouth
for them it's not an inconvenience it's a major financial cost ,
several have flagged their intention to relocate from job deprived S.A. to States who are more mindful of their needs
As a longer heat wave is forecast in the coming days ,things looks grim ,
Both New South Wales and Victoria have informed the Federal authority that they will barely be able to supply their own market and have no power to trade .