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Originally Posted by raymo
Spot on Ray, it wasn't the generation of power that failed, it was the
transmission and distribution system that failed. If you have 22 pylons
damaged the whole system is in big trouble. If you read the initial report
you can see that the wind farms were working just fine, and were not the
first generation/distribution circuits to trip out.
The anti renewables group definitely have their thoughts stamped all
over that article.
raymo
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The report was quite clear that the towers that fell were north of Adelaide,
not the ones that connect to Victoria. The blackout was caused when the Victorian interconnector overloaded, caused by a generation shortfall from the wind turbines shutting down.
If anything, the load shed that their collapse caused actually helped the situation, by delaying the overload on the interconnector.
The problem is that the wind turbines shutting down did actually set off this chain of events. The sensible thing to do is to either add another interconnector, or another gas turbine backup generator.
But the hysterical (and wrong) thing to do would be to stop investing in renewables entirely, and that's probably the most likely outcome here.
