{"id":9352,"date":"2017-02-10T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:23:51","slug":"blackouts-sa-generators-stand-idle-politicians-bicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/blackouts-sa-generators-stand-idle-politicians-bicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackouts In SA While Generators Stand Idle & Politicians Bicker"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Barnaby

Joyce titters, Weatherill gets mad, Australia cooks.<\/p><\/div>\n

Late on Wednesday afternoon, in the middle of a heatwave, electricity was cut off to roughly 90,000 Adelaide properties<\/a> for around 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

Because I have access to a working TV at the moment1<\/a><\/sup> I have seen an implausible number of people shitting bricks over this incident.\u00a0 So many bricks I could use them to build a Great Wall of South Australia.\u00a0 I’m sure it would be effective at keeping foreigners out.\u00a0 After all, who’d want to enter a state surrounded by shitty bricks?<\/p>\n

To all the people who are acting like this is some sort of unprecedented event2<\/a><\/sup>, I have to ask which bloody country do you live in?\u00a0 Rolling blackouts during heatwaves in Australia are not uncommon and have occurred in every mainland state, including those that are almost entirely powered by coal.<\/p>\n

But for those who are complaining for the right reasons, your anger is bloody well justified.<\/p>\n

The reason there was a blackout is because not enough electricity was supplied to meet demand.\u00a0 There was a shortfall of around 100 megawatts and because no additional power was supplied there was no choice other than to blackout part of the state.\u00a0 But while thousands of people in Adelaide had to go without power, there were 250 megawatts of generating capacity sitting idle<\/a> at Pelican Point Power Station<\/a>, another 120 megawatts was going unused<\/a> at Torrens Island Power Station<\/a>, and 50 megawatts<\/a> at Port Lincoln.<\/p>\n

This means the reason there was a blackout was because generators decided not to supply power.<\/p>\n

The Usual Mob Of Idiots<\/h2>\n

Of course it is not possible for a faulty hair dryer to trip a circuit breaker in a Glenelg barber shop without a Coalition politician blaming renewable energy and Wednesday’s blackout was no exception.<\/p>\n

Scott Morrison, Australia’s Treasurer, appeared in Parliament with a lump of coal and all but announced their upcoming engagement.<\/p>\n

“Kiss me, you impetuous fool!”<\/p><\/div>\n

Australia’s minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg,\u00a0 said South Australia should reopen a partially demolished<\/strong> coal Power station:<\/p>\n

“If that means going back to the owners of the Northern Power station and saying ‘this is something that we must investigate to re-start this, even though the closure’s been announced’, then you must do it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This means his solution to gas power plants not being turned on is to rebuild a 32 year old coal power plant that shut down because it was uneconomic to run.\u00a0 He didn’t outline what steps would be taken to make sure it would be turned on when its power was needed.<\/p>\n

Grime Minister Turnbull May Take The Cake<\/h2>\n

Prime Minister Turnbull is usually very careful to ensure he is not the one in his party who says the stupidest thing on any topic, but he may have taken the cake by suggesting South Australians are idiots who aren’t smart enough to know the wind doesn’t blow all the time.<\/p>\n