Nick Xenophon: reveals SA Labor knew all along …
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Desperate, delusional and in denial, South Australia’s hapless Labor government is taking a well-deserved flogging in the press.
SA, the so-called ‘wind power capital’, instead of setting an example of how to run on sunshine and breezes, has become an international laughing stock. Rocketing prices, repeated statewide blackouts and mass load shedding have made SA the ‘go to’ example for anyone seeking to demonstrate the infantile nonsense that is attempting to run an economy on the whims of the weather.
Intermittent wind power is not only guilty of failing to deliver at all, in SA it’s been repeatedly found guilty of destroying the stability of the grid.
Grid stability is all about matching generation output (ie supply) to variable loads (ie demand). It’s a second by second affair, requiring synchronous, dispatchable power sources capable of responding within that timeframe…
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