SA Energy policy failure

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The SA government is criminally negligent in its inability to keep the lights on and pandering to the renewable lobbyists.
The Sydney Moaning Homosexual is just as guilty by publishing FAKE NEWS from the likes of Mark Kenny
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... uaxf0.html

Turnbull government statements blaming last year's South Australian blackout on its high renewable energy target ignored confidential public service advice stating that it was not the cause, according to emails obtained under freedom-of-information rules.

With a febrile debate over renewable energy versus coal-fired generation suddenly raging in Canberra, the revelation is set to undermine the Coalition's energy messaging and shatter confidence in its call for investment certainty through sober debate and bipartisan policy solutions.

That email, sent to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's own officials and others, conveyed the first-blush assessment of the blackout including advice gleaned from the Australian Energy Market Operator: "There has been unprecedented damage to the network (ie bigger than any other event in Australia), with 20+ steel transmission towers down in the north of the State due to wind damage (between Adelaide and Port Augusta). The electricity network was unable to cope with such a sudden and large loss of generation at once. AEMO's advice is that the generation mix (ie renewable or fossil fuel) was not to blame for yesterday's events – it was the loss of 1000 MW of power in such a short space of time as transmission lines fell over."

Yet Kenny deliberately ignored the AEMO results that unequivocally lay the blame at the feet of Wind farms

http://reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-says-wi ... ted-43631/

So far, he said, only one remedy had been implemented – adjusting the ride-through settings on the wind farms in the state. Extensive AEMO modelling, Marxsen told the audience, showed that this would be enough to prevent a repeat of the “system black” event that put the whole state in darkness for several hours.

The facts are that SA is heavily reliant on coal/gas fired power but because they suck it like a parasite from other states, they think they are the pinnacle of the Gaia loving fucktards. Their wind power is intermittent and unreliable and still requires fossil fuels to function, even then it does not function adequately.

Supposedly, software changes to wind farms will stop blackouts from happening ever again. This remains to be seen and I would bet $$$ on more blackouts and excuses from the SA govt and the shills from the SMH to run fake news to try and muddy the waters.

A smart govt would halt all renewable energy being connected to the grid and remove all subsidies until there has been a full investigation with recommendations that put energy security first, cost to the consumer second and way down the end of the list should be renewables/CO2 emissions.

Vic will be closing a coal fired plant that is 20% of the Vic market. What happens when the ALP pie in the sky 50% renewballs happens in every state?
You can't be a blood sucking parasite state, sucking the life out of another state that is determined to become a blood sucking parasite state as well.

Frankly, the interconnector to SA should be closed and let the SA govt figure their way out of the mess they have created as an example to other state govts to show them what happens when you decide to implement stupid ideas.

With unlimited funds, I'd create a massive brown coal fired plant that would supply energy to business and consumers at the cheapest price possible (and let's face it, brown coal is miles cheaper than anything else on the planet) and I guarantee that business and consumers would vote with their wallets.

If you're a Gaia worshipping hippy, then you can pay higher prices for wind/solar/magic beans but you won't get any subsidies for it.
Pay for your stupidity out of your own pocket.
This bullshit would dry up within a year, power would be cheaper and more reliable for everyone and govts will save money.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion ... 253ff499f0

Dennis agrees...

DENNIS SHANAHAN
Political EditorCanberra

Accusations from Labor, the Australia Institute and Fairfax Media that Malcolm Turnbull “lied”, “pushed a false narrative” or “ignored” the advice of the Australian Energy Market Operator over the disastrous South Australian blackout last year don’t even deserve to be called “alternative facts”.

The claims and misrepresentations are lazy. Labor, dangerously delusional about its superiority over the Coalition, is too ready to fall back on claims of “lies” because the great election lie of the Medicare sell-off worked a treat and angered the Prime Minister.

Sure, the government has not been travelling well through the summer but blackouts in South Australia, power supplies threatened in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, the destruction of jobs and business confidence, and soaring power bills require a better response from Labor than a cry of “liar, liar pants on fire”.

Turnbull’s disciplined focus on electricity prices and the unreliability of unbalanced renewable energy production is putting pressure on Labor at all levels. Mark Butler’s response yesterday, bouncing off Australia Institute and Fairfax Media claims that Turnbull had ignored “confidential” advice and set up a false narrative, was knee jerk, superficial and wrong.

While Labor tried to distract the Coalition about preference deals with One Nation, housing affordability and welfare cuts, the climate change spokesman accused Turnbull of lying about the cause of the blackouts. With the added hysterical hyperbole of doing so while people were risking their lives in the field.

But his argument, built on the morning media’s misleading momentum, didn’t acknowledge that Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg had always said the blackout was caused by the effects of a storm.

It didn’t take an FOI request to work this out — AEMO has written three public reports, with a fourth due next month, in which it is spelt out in great detail.

As Turnbull has said, the real issue is that SA’s vulnerability to extreme weather blackouts is a result of an over-reliance on wind and solar.

AEMO’s public findings, after months of study, are that the “growing proportion” of renewables is leading to longer periods of low availability of power and “lower resilience to extreme events”. The third report highlights measures required to change how “the power system responds to extreme events”.

It is the end result — which AEMO sheets home to the intermittency of wind farms — that is the real issue.

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Your citing SA being reliant on CO2 emitting power but imagine they're clean & green because they buy it is a pertinent point, and something I've thought about myself.

Now I admit I love wind turbines. Not the big ones every renewables preacher promotes, but the little ones like you see on boats/yachts. Big wind turbines need a good wind to get them going, but the little ones spin all day on just a puff of breeze.

Big wind turbines have a serious flaw. When the wind's not strong enough to drive them, they draw power from the grid to keep them spinning. Where as the little ones don't generate large volumes of electricity but they do generate small volumes almost constantly.

If I owned a power company I'd have hundreds of little wind turbines in the electricity corridors (which act like wind tunnels) feeding in to the lines to abate line losses.

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Even a solar company Solartrak has seen the writing on the wall so it's now selling a solution to the problems the ALP/Greens created by establishing a rent-seeker economy at the expense of taxpayers and energy security.

South Australian outfit SunTrak Solar assures potential customers that the "renewables" model is the epitome of efficiency, "the fastest, cheapest, cleanest way to meet our energy demand".

Well that is what it says on its website.

At Gumtree.com, that never-ending online garage sale, the message is rather different. Below is SunTrak's ad promoting a reliable, practical alternative to the much vaunted "renewable future" (emphasis added).


In case you can't read the above, the ad says (with emphasis added)

$3,500.00
Getting Sick of Blackout/Power Outages - no doubt more to come. See us about a fully Australian Standard Compliant auto start Diesel generator kit System will do the following Auto Start when the grid goes down Auto Shutdown when the grid comes back online Auto start if battery requires charging Auto Start for periodic self test 6KVA DIESEL GENERATOR WITH SILENCED CANOPY & AUTO START CONTROLLER Silenced canopy ensures minimal noise when used at home...

Champions of green rent-seekers, catastropharianism's false prophets and inner-city politicians terrified of seeing the votes of greasy-sweatered, sprout-gobbling constituents go to the Greens, please take note: when a solar-oriented company is selling diesel generators on the strength of "power outages -- no doubt more to come", it's all over.

You've lost. Now go away, find another scam to hobble growth and beggar your neighbours, and don't forget to take the RET rort with you.

With policies like this, you will see many more people disconnecting from the grid and not because they are using solar or Telsa power walls, it will be because the rent seekers and the govt have created an unreliable and expensive grid that makes moving to a genset an attractive proposition, which in turn will make the power/wind/solar energy suppliers fail even quicker and economically unviable.

I can just picture clouds of diesel fumes rising above the state of SA, the massive jump in CO2 and billions of dollars of unreliable renewballs mothballed because it doesn't work.

This is a perfect example of progressive policy and why progressives should be tattooed so they can be recognised and kept away from anything that has any input on public policy...Or shot on sight. I'm good with either way but have a preference for the latter.