Reality Bites: ‘Green’ Dreamers Struggling to Spin Away South Australia’s Failed Wind Power Experiment
Posted: March 5, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment“The greatest policy hoax of our time has conned the State government – and the ABC.” – Janet Albrechtsen (The Australian)
STOP THESE THINGS
Fantastic in theory, but reality is another place.
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It’s been barely 5 months since South Australia experienced a state wide blackout on 28 September, when a typically vigorous spring storm delivered wind speeds in excess of 90km/h, causing the majority of turbines operating at its 18 wind farms to automatically shutdown to avoid self-destruction. The ensuing collapse in wind power output overloaded the interconnectors with Victoria, which tripped automatically; and thereafter South Australia suffered what is now known as a ‘system black’ (see our post here).
With a string of blackouts during December (see our post here) and mass load shedding during a heat wave when, yet again, wind power output plummeted (see our post here), humour among South Australians is now a rare and treasured commodity.
Inversely related to South Australians’ fury at their power pricing and supply calamity, is the battle that the wind…
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