Maybe the bushfires have taken down some power lines. The Newsprint mill at Boyer would use a lot of electricity.
A brief look at MSM and activist website comments on last Thursday’s bloodbath in Victoria shows no surprises. Nowhere in those places can one find the AEMO’s reports referenced, showing the dismal failure of wind and solar in contributing less than 25% of their expensively installed capacity. Wind actually contributed just under 4% of supply at the point the grid was deliberately subjected to rolling suburb by suburb blackouts. Note also that the majority of the Melbourne area was spared – too many voters there maybe ? Regional populations were targeted – are they regarded as 2nd class citizens ? (Macron in France thinks so).
Plenty of comments about the failure of coal-fired generators (gas peakers, too) but no acknowledgement that maintenance is deliberately discouraged by the RET (an extremely destructive piece of legislation).
DiNatale tells us that WW2-style rationing is needed. At some point, quite soon, people will be unexpectedly stuck in elevators between the 15th and 16th floors for a few days, waiting for the wind to pick back up. Except that backup diesel generators will be mandated to avoid law suits, transferring accountability for failure to the victims.. Already a diabetes2 child in one of the blacked-out suburbs had her insulin turn useless unexpectedly through no refrigeration and the local hospital had the same issue. With no fuel pumps working, ambulances were grounded anyway.
Third world indeed. We are destroyed and given the woeful flaccidness, the gullibility, of the general population, I fear it is deserved.
An AEMO Market Notice(top right page) 66837 25 Jan 2019 20:09 says Basslink has been limited to 150MW export & zero import due to bushfires. I heard on ABC News24 TV that a sawmill I think SW of Hobart (Lonnavale) had lost power. But I can not see any AEMO notice re the crash in Tas demand ~4pm Sunday. Lonnavale looks too remote to cause 40% of Tas demand to vanish.
How could they not notice ~40% of demand vanishing? OpenNem gives perspectives of the crash over various timescales.
Waz maybe the Hyro was concerned about supply as it seems there are fires in the area around some of the dams. They could have asked some of the industry to try their emergency power as a trial. most of the hospitals have emergency diesels. The paper mill at Boyer near New Norfolk would use at least 10MW and has their own coal fired boilers which are likely to generate power. The paper plant could be turned off. BHP (or is it now South32) smelt feromanganese near Launceston. I think there was an Aluminium smelter at Bell Bay near Launceston not sure if it is still operational. The cement works at Railton could drop 10MW and turn the kiln with an emergency diesel. However, as you say 400MW is a lot to drop off in a small state where much industry (eg paper mills & mines) has been closed.
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Apologies for being OT but is anybody noticing Basslink is not doing much transmitting?
Yes Basslink seemed to cease transmitting about 24 hours ago except for the odd small spike that could be testing.
www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-dashboard#nem-dispatch-overview
But Tasmanian demand has just crashed from 1030MW to a trough under 650MW –
www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-dashboard#price-demand
what th’? What could cause that?
Maybe the bushfires have taken down some power lines. The Newsprint mill at Boyer would use a lot of electricity.
A brief look at MSM and activist website comments on last Thursday’s bloodbath in Victoria shows no surprises. Nowhere in those places can one find the AEMO’s reports referenced, showing the dismal failure of wind and solar in contributing less than 25% of their expensively installed capacity. Wind actually contributed just under 4% of supply at the point the grid was deliberately subjected to rolling suburb by suburb blackouts. Note also that the majority of the Melbourne area was spared – too many voters there maybe ? Regional populations were targeted – are they regarded as 2nd class citizens ? (Macron in France thinks so).
Plenty of comments about the failure of coal-fired generators (gas peakers, too) but no acknowledgement that maintenance is deliberately discouraged by the RET (an extremely destructive piece of legislation).
DiNatale tells us that WW2-style rationing is needed. At some point, quite soon, people will be unexpectedly stuck in elevators between the 15th and 16th floors for a few days, waiting for the wind to pick back up. Except that backup diesel generators will be mandated to avoid law suits, transferring accountability for failure to the victims.. Already a diabetes2 child in one of the blacked-out suburbs had her insulin turn useless unexpectedly through no refrigeration and the local hospital had the same issue. With no fuel pumps working, ambulances were grounded anyway.
Third world indeed. We are destroyed and given the woeful flaccidness, the gullibility, of the general population, I fear it is deserved.
An AEMO Market Notice(top right page) 66837 25 Jan 2019 20:09 says Basslink has been limited to 150MW export & zero import due to bushfires. I heard on ABC News24 TV that a sawmill I think SW of Hobart (Lonnavale) had lost power. But I can not see any AEMO notice re the crash in Tas demand ~4pm Sunday. Lonnavale looks too remote to cause 40% of Tas demand to vanish.
How could they not notice ~40% of demand vanishing? OpenNem gives perspectives of the crash over various timescales.
Waz maybe the Hyro was concerned about supply as it seems there are fires in the area around some of the dams. They could have asked some of the industry to try their emergency power as a trial. most of the hospitals have emergency diesels. The paper mill at Boyer near New Norfolk would use at least 10MW and has their own coal fired boilers which are likely to generate power. The paper plant could be turned off. BHP (or is it now South32) smelt feromanganese near Launceston. I think there was an Aluminium smelter at Bell Bay near Launceston not sure if it is still operational. The cement works at Railton could drop 10MW and turn the kiln with an emergency diesel. However, as you say 400MW is a lot to drop off in a small state where much industry (eg paper mills & mines) has been closed.