The South Australian black out — A grid on the edge. There were warnings that...
Australians are going to be talking about this for weeks. Indeed, the SA Blackout is the stuff of legend. The Greens are blaming coal (what else?) for causing bad storms and blackouts. Forget that...
View ArticleReport on Aug 25 blackouts shows how fragile our grid is (and the real cost...
When cheap solar is expensive Badly installed solar PV makes Australia’s grid fragile On August 25 last year there was nearly a system blackout when, improbably, three states of Australia were...
View ArticleQueensland’s Near Miss: hydrogen may have exploded at a coal plant (and...
Tuesday was a wild day for Queensland Electricity. An explosion struck the Callide C Power Plant triggering a cascade of other plants to switch off within seconds. The massive 2.5GW fall in supply took...
View ArticleAustralian grid teeters on edge of blackouts tonight
The Queensland grid is in crisis — the forecast price for nearly the entire next 24 hours is $15,000 per megawatt hour. I have never seen a graph like this one. It’s a “white knuckle ride” as Paul...
View ArticleStill teetering: Blackout warnings across the Australian grid next three days
All the rules are breaking. The price market broke on Sunday night and now the interconnectors rules are broken too. The whole Eastern five state “National” grid is flying seat of the pants — the...
View ArticleBlackout risk in five states continues: Wholesale energy market suspended,...
The Renewable Crash Test Dummies: Test in progress A LaTrobe Valley Coal Plant Day #3: Huge Yallourn coal plant in Victoria loses 2 of 4 turbines. The AEMO suspends the whole market. Blackout warnings...
View ArticleSouth Africa faces blackouts, vandalism, protests and people in hospital from...
Just an update on South Africa: Blackouts continue, and the people are not happy: These are being describes as the worst blackouts since the ANC came into power in 1994. Residents block roads in...
View ArticleRenewable South Australia Islanded, flying by the seat of their pants, afraid...
By Jo Nova The biggest blackout has hit South Australia since the statewide crash of 2016. It’s due to a weather calamity, but the renewables state is struggling to keep the frequency stable for a...
View ArticleSouth Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours...
By Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people...
View ArticleBlackouts are coming: Australian grid so fragile, expensive, cement giant...
Image by Vicente Godoy from Pixabay By Jo Nova We can’t even run a cement factory all day anymore Get your candles for summer! Unlike the last three years the Australian national grid won’t be rescued...
View ArticleNew York narrowly missed a disaster last Christmas Eve: gas pipes froze and...
By Jo Nova Our cities are more fragile than we imagine During the winter storm called “Elliott” last Christmas, gas pipes came close to freezing in New York. The gas shortages are not just deadly...
View ArticleBlackouts for 500,000: Time to talk about the transition to expensive,...
Paul Englher | ABC News By Jo Nova Just how wise is it to have a grid dependent on all this fragile infrastructure? Nature seems to be telling us something about adding another 10,000 kilometers of...
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