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Old 09-02-2017, 03:15 PM
AndrewJ
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and most unreliable supply.
I know its still early, but i have been hearing on the news this arvo that people in SA knew that there was going to be an evening load problem due to "predicted" low winds, and wanted to fire up Pelican point as a backup just in case, but AEMO, ( the managers of "the grid" ) refused to authorise it???
Be interesting if that is true.
ie reliability comes down to a cost equation run by some wallahs in a building somewhere in another state.
Essential services should never have been privatised.

Andrew
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