SA’s Premier: dogged by dirty diesel debacle.
Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes sometimes reads like the farcical plot of an episode of Blackadder or Fawlty Towers.
In a ‘you couldn’t make this up if you tried’ moment, Australia’s ‘greenest’ States, Victoria and South Australia (which has been forced to wear its mantle as ‘Australia’s wind power capital’, more like a crown of thorns), have been reduced to running on diesel generators.
Consumers set to cop cost of diesel back-up
The Australia
Samantha Hutchinson
14 November 2017
Victorian consumers could foot the bill for a summer energy plan using diesel generators as a stopgap during periods of peak demand.
In an about-face by the Andrews government, diesel generators will pump up to 100 megawatts of power into Victoria’s energy grid as back-up in case of extreme heatwaves this summer.
The plan by the Australian Energy Market Operator…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Nov 21, 2017 @ 19:09:48
This is the debacle where SA has now the cheapest electricity in Australia and is exporting electricity to other states
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Nov 21, 2017 @ 21:16:04
My point precisely. Supply so unstable they have to all but give it away. Later on, blackouts.
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