> The ancillary market exists to prevent that. Standing contracts are posted to bring fast generation like hydro power or gas turbines on the second power gets

> The ancillary market exists to prevent that. Standing contracts are posted to bring fast generation like hydro power or gas turbines on the second power gets too low or too high. Ahhh, so that's how it works. Thanks. > In Southern Australia there is very little of those resources and due to technical neglect and the governments pro-coal policies, I struggle with that. South Australia is in the position it is is (50% renewable, 100% on occasions) because it has very little coal, and what they do have is low quality. In fact they import it from QLD and NSW. All that posturing from federal liberal politicians blaming SA Labor for choosing renewables is just that. In reality they didn't have much choice. It's very hard to be pro-coal when you don't have any. > Nuclear is also highly capital intensive and benefits just as much as renewables from storage. I've never thought about it - but that's probably correct. However I'm firmly in the camp of "if it was truly cheaper than coal or renewables, nuclear would be everywhere now". The data makes it fairly plain safety concerns are overblown - it's actually one of the safer forms of energy production. If it was cheap the loud protests from the anti-nuclear nuclear lobby would be ignored, just as the protests from the anti-wind lobby are mostly ignored.