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It is also under cutting the price that gas fired power stations need to be profitable. Since South Australia doesn't have coal or nuclear baseline generation a
by antt 8y ago
It is also under cutting the price that gas fired power stations need to be profitable. Since South Australia doesn't have coal or nuclear baseline generation any more we may see what happens when a state goes 100% renewable pretty soon.
The answer on the few hot days this year has been "plunging neighboring states into blackouts".
- BLKNSLVR 8y agounder cutting the price that gas fired power stations need to be profitable. That sounds like a gas fired power stations problem, not a battery problem. In fact, it sounds like a good economic argument for the battery, and for more of them. The answer on the few hot days this year has been "plunging neighboring states into blackouts". Can you please point to some evidence of this? It doesn't sound like a logical progression to me. If South Australian's power situation was to cause black outs in New South Wales or Victoria, there would be a million fantastic articles about it. I don't know what 'the rules' are, but I doubt Australia's two most populous states would be too excited about agreeing to rules that would cause SA's power to be maintained at the expense of theirs. I'm also pretty sure that in 2018 SA was a net exporter of power to the East (that's a different metric, but somewhat related).