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Hasbeen,
>If there has been so much gold plating of the distribution systems, how come, lots of the towers fell over in
>South Australia, in no worse conditions than an average Queensland thunder storm?
Are you referring to the ones that were hit by tornadoes?

The gold plating claims referred to new infrastructure rather than existing,

>How come we get outages every year a few times in the thunder storm season?
Maybe because your state doesn't have a big battery? The system's more reliable in SA nowadays!

>How come the people of Tamborine mountain can get a number of outages in a mild spring day?
Haven't the foggiest! Do you know?

>Surely a gold plated system should handle simple average conditions.
Again, you misunderstand what's meant by gold plating. It's more about inefficiency than high standards.

>We need to stop building windmills & start doing some upgrades & maintenance on those gold plated wires.
Are you aware that building windmills and making the wires and transformers more reliable aren't mutually exclusive?

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Bazz,
There is quite a lot of renewable energy being commissioned now. But even if that doesn't meet our needs, and we don't have enough peaking capacity available, and we don't have enough demand management arrangements in place, we wouldn't get trapped in lifts. In the unlikely event that the electricity companies do resort to load shedding, they'd do it in the outer suburbs not the CBD.
Posted by Aidan, Friday, 6 September 2019 3:46:02 PM
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Foxy do not confuse nameplate ratings with actual generated power.
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 6 September 2019 5:41:28 PM
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Dear Bazz,

I'm not confusing anything. Merely quoting
from the Australian Financial Review and
Westpac - as my link shows.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 6 September 2019 7:02:07 PM
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Aiden, where do you think all these multistory units are being built ?
I live in an outer area and many multis are being built around the next
areas out from here.
You can criticise the councils for allowing this size units in areas
that are likely to suffer load shedding. They are convinced that
that wind and solar will be fine; ask them !
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 6 September 2019 7:17:20 PM
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I know Aidan you have a real problem with reality, but would you please explain just what a big battery would do for power outages caused by storms.

These outages are not due to any lack of power in Queensland, we have adequate coal fired power for the state, & much of north NSW. For your information, storms don't cause destruction of coal fired power houses, as they do for wind power. The outages are due to lack of adequate clearance of trees from power lines.

This lack of maintenance is due to a mixture of insufficient money allocated to this work, & fear of ratbag greenie protests about tree clearing. I guess it will take major fires caused by power lines too close to trees, as caused the major fires in California recently, to get this problem addressed.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 6 September 2019 8:23:13 PM
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Hasbeen, have a look at this, you will see that NSW hardly ever has
enough power for itself and the extra needed comes from Queensland.
Both NSW & Vic and sometimes SA need Qld to keep the lights on'

http://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-dashboard#nem-dispatch-overview

http://tinyurl.com/y9n75xkf

Tassie has been out of the act due to a fault for a few weeks.
Aren't we all lucky it didn't happen next December.
Victoria gets a lot fed in from Qld also.
Just make it your home page and you will all realise how dependant
we are on Qld.
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:42:31 PM
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