Is this the base load power we keep hearing about?
VOTE COAL!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Customers accounting for as much as 1000 megawatts of load have gone without electricity after transmission towers near Anakie to Melbourne’s north-west were left crumpled by the wild weather.
The lines failure prompted AGL Energy’s 2,210MW coal-fired power station to drop offline at 2.15pm, the company said.
Aemo issued a market alert declaring a “significant” power system event because of “multiple tripping of generation and transmission lines” in the region.
An AEMO spokesperson said the Moorabool to Sydenham 500-kilovolt transmission lines tripped, resulting in “multiple generators” becoming disconnected from the grid and some consumers experienced a loss of electricity supply.
Dylan McConnell, an energy expert at the University of New South Wales, said significant incidents in the grid were “very infrequent”.
Bruce Mountain, head of the Victoria Energy Policy Centre, said power demand in the state was fluctuating with the Portland aluminium smelter dropping offline, returning, and apparently exiting again.
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Bitch better get used to them becoming a lot more frequent and start preparing accordingly
They should build some big ass batteries fed by solar to back up the coal plant 🤣
Big arse batteries are good. Smaller neighborhood sized batteries to make independent but connected micro grids is better.
