SA power - a plan at last

[AndrewJ]

Maybe the feds are onto something with the Snowy scheme

Heard an interesting thought on the radio the other day re this, and the scale of it.
How will it affect the environmental flows into the rivers if such a large amount of water gets recycled vs released.
( ie the new scheme is supposed to increase Snowy capacity by 50%)
My thought is that once running, it is still a closed loop, so water in at the top = water out at the bottom, but it still doesnt sound right???
Andrew

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Originally Posted by Exfso

No problems Ray. It certainly does not help that SA is broke.
I believe that most of the problems have been caused by the privatisation and the resultant needs of the power owners to make the almighty dollar. Bugger the battlers as usual they will have to be the bunnies that wear the increased costs and decreased services.
I know it is a fair while ago, but I cannot remember these sorts of issues when the whole shebang was run by ETSA.

To some extent, that is true. From about 1990 to 2005, there was hardly any significant investment. This has now changed, but there is quite a backlog of works, and we are not back to where we were in the late 80s. Certain foreign companies took the money and ran, now we are all paying for it.
The funding model of the last ten years or so actually encouraged more investment, so at least the situation was recognised and to some extent rectified.