The utter idiocy of the Greenies is on display yet again as Sth Aust Greenie windymills stop turning and plunge the entire state into darkness as dim as the technically obtuse Greenies.More examples of Greenie sabotage of Australia.Another one bites the dust!!!
(as a windmill gets blown over)
Total blackout: Bright sparks needed in South Australia
Australian Morning Mail 29/09/2016
Wind farms actually stop operating when it’s too windy.
SA Premier Jay Weatherill has confirmed severe weather destroyed a piece of infrastructure, a transmission tower, during the storm which led to the power-system protecting itself with a shutdown. “Essentially what happened is a massive set of power was removed and when that happens it trips the system,” he said in a press conference on Wednesday evening.
SA proudly leads the way in renewable energy. Massive price surges rather than power surges resulting from their ambitious renewable energy campaign has gained much media attention of late, none of it favourable to the consumer. Perhaps the most prophetic statement made in the wake of this total power failure is this, Wind farms actually stop operating when it’s too windy.
Source: ABC
SA power outage: how did it happen?
South Australia and its 1.677 million residents were left without power on Wednesday evening following severe storms.
So have recent events and a focus on renewable energy created the ‘perfect storm’ for a state-wide blackout?
First, what happened?
SA Premier Jay Weatherill has confirmed severe weather destroyed a piece of infrastructure, a transmission tower, during the storm which led to the power-system protecting itself with a shutdown.
“Essentially what happened is a massive set of power was removed and when that happens it trips the system,” he said in a press conference on Wednesday evening.
Earlier he told ABC radio in Adelaide the weather has caused damage to power infrastructure near Port Augusta.
“It appears there was a weather event that damaged infrastructure in the Port Augusta area. Energy generation assets remain intact. At this stage there does not seem to be any damage to the interconnector with Victoria,” he said.
SA Power Networks’ Paul Roberts said they were investigating whether a network shutdown as a protection was the cause.
“We believe — and this is only early information — that there may have been some issue with the interconnector but the state’s power system is shut down I think possibly as a protection,” he said.
“It means we’re not receiving any electricity supply from generators to be able to supply to generators.”
Surely South Australia has some sort of back-up power?
Well, it does, but it has to reset the system.
“There are a series of back-up generators,” Premier Weatherill said.
“Power is restored but the number of hours this may take is something that we don’t yet know.”
Where does SA’s power come from?
The state is powered by a mix of wind, solar and gas.
In May, Alinta’s Northern power station at Port Augusta closed, which means coal has been cut out of the electricity equation.
At the time, Australian Energy Council chief executive Matthew Warren said the power station’s closure meant the state would have less back-up energy available on days of peak demand.
He also said the state would have a greater reliance on renewable energy
and on the interconnector from Victoria for base-load power. (
pissoff parasites )
“The reality for South Australians is that we’re in uncharted waters,” he said in May.“There’s an increased level of risk that we really haven’t seen before anywhere in the world, so it doesn’t mean we’ll have more blackouts,
hopefully if we’re smart we can sort out solutions so power supply can be the same as usual, but it’s an increased risk.”
Did that impact Wednesday’s event?
The Premier says no.
“This would have happened with the Port Augusta power station in place,” he said.
“We have sufficient back-up baseload power.
“The interconnector is still up and running.”So, surely SA can get power from this interconnector?One of the two interconnectors between SA and Victoria has been down since July and works to fix it won’t be complete for months.
Once it is fixed it will increase capacity by 40 per cent.
Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg spoke to Sky News earlier and said questions would be raised over how the collapse of the entire SA power network could happen.“There are actually two interconnectors between Victoria and South Australia,” he said.
“One’s called the Murray Link
and the other one is called the Heywood Interconnector and the recent spike in prices in the South Australian spot market for electricity was due in part to the upgrade to that interconnector.“Now clearly, questions will be raised, serious questions will be raised, that need to be answered as to how this extreme weather event could take out the whole of the electricity supply across a major state such as South Australia.”
But Premier Weatherill said the interconnector played no role in the blackout. What about its wind power?
Wind farms actually stop operating when it’s too windy.
what an ******* joke...
the labor/greens coalition should be hauled into an Australian court and have their asses sued ..