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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Ray
That made the nightly news here, so no idea why you lot missed it.
It was reported as "a fire" in the Torrens island station that tripped out several units. This then knocked out Pelican point.
Andrew
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thanks Andrew. it was reported here as "fires" at Torrens Island from memory, but nothing I saw mentioned that a transformer exploded, explained how much capacity went down and that it very nearly blacked out the state, or indicated that wind power kept everything going (presumably).
I guess that it didn't suit any agendas to draw attention to the event - the State govt didn't want to acknowledge just how fragile our system is and the Feds didn't want to acknowledge that wind turbines can provide "base load" power.
The big worry is that energy security is going to become a National problem in the near future and there doesn't appear to be anyone doing any National planning to deal with it - hopefully I am wrong and the Minister is on top of it, but all I see at present is a lot of pre-emptive blame shifting and good impressions of startled rabbits running hither and thither in the headlights.