Thread: Horror heatwave blackout fears for Victoria

Originally Posted by bee utey

Victorian demand dropped quickly after 6pm. Why generate expensive diesel power when cheaper power is available from next door?

Be interested to see how expensive repairs are going to be, over 100 separate failures across Adelaide tonight. Quote "damage to our equipment" and "extreme weather" being the most common reasons given for failure. Still 13K customers out at this point.

the wholesale price of power didnt change.

im guessing most of the individual issues are overheating transformers with the occasion tree down.
i dont think SA broke its peak demand record.


pic of the power generation in SA for the 24th.
not sure how low the wind got. i saw ~80MW at one point.

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More power outages in Melbourne.

33C at 6am as 8000 Melbournians wake up to no power

I am more and more coming to the opinion nuclear power stations are the way of the future , our old system just can't cope, and the climate is not going to get cooler.

Blazing heat triggers emergency powers on energy use

Notice that SA is about 90% gas and diesel. Wind reported at 4% and I don't know what other is.( probably solar)

New Slogan "SA the Gaseous State."

Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Notice that SA is about 90% gas and diesel. Wind reported at 4% and I don't know what other is.( probably solar)

New Slogan "SA the Gaseous State."

Regards Philip A

I look at that info several times a day, just out of interest. It updates every 5 minutes in line with the national market.

After a while you get an idea of what looks 'normal' and what doesn't.

The brown coal output in Vic is down (visible) because 2 units are out for repairs / maintenance.

The really strange thing is the much reduced output of black coal generated power coming out of Queensland at the time. They have about the same coal generating capacity as NSW but regularly put more of this type of power into the grid than NSW.

There is no explanation in the OZ (where that graph is lifted from) of 'why' such a large component of generation is not being used when there is some sort of 'crisis'.

DL

Can't they just turn all those big wind turbines to point and blow north and suck the cooler air up from Antartica and blow it across the country. Seems that'd be useful.



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Damn it was hot last night.
Temp(near Essendon Airport) didn't drop below 31°C last night.
Coolest temp was 31.1°C at 1:30AM
Currently(11AM) 39 or so.

21 in Portland, 22 at Cape Otway atm.

Playing golf at Queenscliif at 2 coz the change should be here by then.

DL