> Wind makes the grid flakier, as Aussies found out this week. No sooner had the state of South Australia boasted about “going zero carbon” then it suffered black-outs.
No, they found that out a few weeks back when the Victorian interconnect was down for maintenance at an unfortunate time.
The statewide blackout was caused by a bunch of high voltage towers were downed by a rather large storm. You know, the ones between all power plants including the coal, gas and hydro plants and the national grid. Maybe their base load capacity is too low, but that is unrelated to their blackout this week. Renewables FUD is no better than nuclear FUD.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
