"Reality bites, eventually. On Tuesday, 500,000 Victorians were without power after a storm (not unusual this time of year) triggered cascading failures first of transmission lines and then its largest generator, Loy Yang A.

This is the same Loy Yang A that the State Government is determined to see closed by 2035, with the acquiescence of its owner, AGL, egged on by minority shareholder and climate activist, Mike Cannon-Brookes. Victorians thus got a taste of life without Loy Yang A, and they did not like it."

Australia has been pursuing renewable energy for the past fifteen years. By some estimates it will take nearly seventy years to get to 100% renewable energy. Some five decades ago France started building nuclear power stations. Some fifteen years later the program concluded with a capacity 50% greater than required. Today, French nuclear power costs about a third as much as renewable energy and is a major export earner for the French economy. Similarly, Dubai completed a 5.6 GW nuclear power plant in a little over 10 years at a cost of 24 billion USD. On this basis Australia could supply its total electrical demand for a cost of under 400 billion AUD.

Renewable energy is being pursued and nuclear energy is being ignored in Australia purely for ideological reasons. Renewable energy scammers are being paid several billion dollars annually for expensive and unreliable energy that will destroy Australia's economy.

Definition: Renewable; Renewed every 25 years.
From the photos looks like some engineer underestimated the wind speed
when designing the towers, or they just kept putting more cab,es on them.
They would have a lot of wind resistance.
They might have to replace them all !

Even "basket case" South Africa is planning for a low carbon energy supply with much more thought than cult leader Albo and his cabinet of morons.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240218-could-mini-nuclear-stations-plug-south-africa-s-power-gaps

2nd thoughts;
Why not put them underground ? Might be cheaper than
replacing all the towers of that design.
After all they run under Bass Straight !

3rd Thoughts; Why not install guy wires, probably cheapest,

Of course Victoria's blackouts had everything to do with
renewables. So say some commentators and politicians
so eager to score political points.

They want you to believe that it had nothing to do with the
storms sweeping across the state downing power lines and
transmission towers or the high damage done to high
voltage transmission lines and low voltage distribution
system.

They argue that it had nothing to do with the six transmission
towers (and counting) that were affected including two that
buckled and twisted and at the same time the fact that the
Loy Yang power station tripped.

The strong winds had no effect?

The fact that they had taken down some major power
infrastructure - does not speak to some people. They would have
us believe that we don't need to harden the network against
future weather events. Let's just score political points and
blame renewables. Improvement in resilience to the entire system
really doesn't matter.