South Australia’s infamous Statewide blackout on 28 September 2016 was caused by wind turbines that couldn’t handle a vigorous spring storm front. Wind speeds exceeded 25m/s (90km/h), which meant turbines at the bulk of its (then 18) wind farms shut down automatically to protect themselves from catastrophic self-destruction.
Metropolitan Adelaide was without power for hours, regional centres without power for days and mines in the north of the state were without power for close to a fortnight. The cost to businesses and households – first estimated to be in the order of $367 million – was all thoroughly avoidable.
This is a state that trashed its perfectly reliable coal-fired power plants at Port Augusta, closed in May 2016, and blown up in November 2017, with its Labor Premier and MPs exultant at the result.
Well, in another ‘we told you so moment’, thousands of South Australians have been left without…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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