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Originally Posted by Atmos
Victoria is watching SA and in doing so decided to close down our coal power plant that provides for 25% of our power... Plus there is nothing to replace it. A few months ago I changed my ideas of buying a house to building; going off-grid entirely.
Don't really want to be connected to a grid that is going to on one hand make me pay more for power because it has lost 25% of its base load and on the other force me to go into a brown out on a 40ºC day.
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do you know why they are closing the plant Colin? It seems like it will open a huge hole in power availability if there is nothing to replace it. From the SA perspective the same company (ENGIN from France) also owns the underutilised Pelican Point gas generator in this state - maybe they see best profits from getting that back in full production to make up any shortfall on the grid? But who knows - nobody seems to be planning anything at all with customers in mind and there is certainly no long term national strategy - just a collection of companies with varying interest in Australia, all jostling to get the best buck they can today, regardless of service provision.
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Originally Posted by csb
This does seem promising!
May also be history repeating.
News story on ABC website about Thomas Playford (former Premier SA). Back then the electricity was supplied by private companies who were chasing big profits and the system was not well coordinated. So after Playford became Premier, he came up with the ETSA Act and brought the whole SA electricity production, distribution & billing into state ownership - ETSA.
Now that is strong and community oriented leadership!
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interesting comparson
