{"id":10223,"date":"2017-04-26T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=10223"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:04:04","slug":"sa-energy-crisis-myth-peddled-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-energy-crisis-myth-peddled-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘SA Energy Crisis’ Is A Myth Peddled By Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u00a0repeat a\u00a0message long and loud enough many people will accept it as true.<\/p><\/div>\n

At the start\u00a0of the\u00a0month I wrote that South Australia’s grid was in disarray. \u00a0I warned that more\u00a0blackouts were inevitable as soon as summer rolled around again or adverse weather struck.<\/p>\n

With my warning I wanted to give people a sense of perilous urgency on the need to do something about the dilapidated state of the grid that we depend upon for our jobs, our well being, and civilization itself.<\/p>\n

But that was on April Fools Day.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t serious.<\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong with South Australia’s grid.\u00a0 Not physically, at least.\u00a0 To be precise, there is nothing materially more wrong with it than normal.\u00a0 Despite what you may have heard, the fact that over half the electricity generated in the state now comes from wind power and rooftop solar1<\/a><\/sup> has not reduced the grid’s reliability.<\/p>\n

The SA grid is just as capable of meeting supply as it was last year, 5 years ago, or 10 years ago when the state had almost no renewable generating capacity.\u00a0 But despite this, there are many people think SA’s\u00a0grid is crumbling faster than a biscuit umbrella in a tsunami.<\/p>\n

But it is now widely accepted that 3 separate\u00a0blackouts in SA\u00a0last summer were due to:<\/p>\n