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The specific carbon emission data from electricitymap.org reject the claim from the headline: > https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/AUS-SA https://www.electric

• 1234fdsazxcv 6y ago
  Reading the article may help. The article states that it was a temporary event.
• wp381640 6y ago
  That's coming from the gas plants in SA that are required to provide network inertia They're currently working on replacing that with battery (this is explained in the article)
  • belorn 6y ago
    Is there a date when the existing gas plants will be decommissioned and demolished?
    • edhelas 6y ago
      Good question, all the emitted CO² stays for centuries in the atmosphere. What is happening if in the end they can't replace all those "dirty" backups ? This whole plan will basically work only if this big "if" is solved and deployed.
  • 0xy 6y ago
    That's false, they're not at all working on replacing gas. In fact, they're quadrupling down on gas (because it's basically a necessity for baseload capacity). [1] [2] [1] https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/pitt/media-releases/regional-south-australian-gas-plant-ready-pump-again-commonwealth https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/pitt/media-re... [2] https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/story/6607101/650m-gas-power-plant-at-tepko-would-be-one-of-sas-biggest/ https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/story/6607101/650m-g...
• omegabravo 6y ago
  That's ~30hrs after the point in time highlighted by the article.