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UK has a national grid serving 67m people! That should be how it is done. I think they might own the last mile. I think Australia might be the same or at least

UK has a national grid serving 67m people! That should be how it is done. I think they might own the last mile. I think Australia might be the same or at least per state. They do own the last mile, AusGrid comes and repairs power poles and has a map of outages online. Lebanon is the other extreme where you just need your own generator because the infra is localized and unreliable.

defrost 2y ago
Australia has traditionally had government led national infrastructure to achieve span and system uniformity, followed on by waves of privatisation to varying degrees - for roads, power, telecommunications, etc. It's a large (mainland USA in area equivilant) area with sparse dense pockets of population. W.Australia has a fully independent power grid, I suspect the Northern Territory is the same. The East Coast (where the vast majority of population resides) has inter connected State grids .. including (recently) Tasmania, an island state with a great deal of hydro electricity and gas reserves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink There's a federal road network, lesser roads are state roads, smaller roads are managed by local councils.
- paranoidrobot 2y ago
  On Tas/Basslink: There's quite a bit of Wind generation, too - and a whole lot of capacity for more, if the windfarms can get approval. (Roadblocks from local communities) There's a project to duplicate basslink (500MW HVCD) - it was initially planned as 2x 750MW cables, but the three governments involved wouldn't fully agree on the increased price. Which IMO is insane because it'll be needed. There's a dashboard showing how the various states interlink and export power between themselves[1]. [1] https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...

defrost 2y ago

Australia has traditionally had government led national infrastructure to achieve span and system uniformity, followed on by waves of privatisation to varying degrees - for roads, power, telecommunications, etc. It's a large (mainland USA in area equivilant) area with sparse dense pockets of population. W.Australia has a fully independent power grid, I suspect the Northern Territory is the same. The East Coast (where the vast majority of population resides) has inter connected State grids .. including (recently) Tasmania, an island state with a great deal of hydro electricity and gas reserves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink There's a federal road network, lesser roads are state roads, smaller roads are managed by local councils.

paranoidrobot 2y ago
On Tas/Basslink: There's quite a bit of Wind generation, too - and a whole lot of capacity for more, if the windfarms can get approval. (Roadblocks from local communities) There's a project to duplicate basslink (500MW HVCD) - it was initially planned as 2x 750MW cables, but the three governments involved wouldn't fully agree on the increased price. Which IMO is insane because it'll be needed. There's a dashboard showing how the various states interlink and export power between themselves[1]. [1] https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...