Taste of things to come?

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Originally Posted by oldyella 76

You are right Tinns, Loy Yang went off line before the storm hit causing the load shedding.

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The storm front hit western Victoria long before it reached the east. The front was coming from the NW and travelling SE towards Geelong in the morning. It was also very slowly edging more and more to the east as it moved across Victoria.

At sometime in the early afternoon (before 2:30pm), the 500kv line near Geelong went down when 6 towers collapsed in cyclonic/tornado force winds tripping Loy Yang A.

At 3:30pm, AEMO confirmed it had directed controlled load shedding to take place and 90,000 customers had their power disconnected. This was to be a rolling small outage to protect the stability of the grid.

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That load shedding request was cancelled at 4pm. By this stage the storm had hit the east, continuing to do further damage, and subsequently 500,000 customers had lost their power.

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This is not to say there won’t be days where proactive load shedding takes place without a storm, but Tuesday’s events was all related to the storm front that passed through Victoria.

When I started this thread I should have known it might devolve into the usual pointless argument, which by the way I willingly joined. I say pointless, as there is no debate, just lines drawn and defended. So I'm out. I won't change your mind through argument, and you won't change mine.

However, I would draw your attention to the EU, which is disintegrating as I write, with Sweden now being the next to moot leaving the show Parliament in Brussels, all down to the idiotic and unachievable Net Zero policies of that organisation, coupled with the lack of affordable energy caused largely by the stupid sanctions on Putin ( who doesn't care, he's mates with Xi ), and the greatest act of economic and ecological vandalism ever, the destruction of Nordstream, and the attack on farmers due to the use of nitrogen. [ Moronic policies in the US haven't helped either] The EV market there is following the worldwide trend and stagnating, as all the wannabees already have them and see how unsuited they are, and nobody else wanted one in the first place. Volvo haemorrhaged so much money through Polestar that they couldn't dump it fast enough. The destruction of Volkswagen is almost complete. The people of London and its surrounds tear down ULEZ cameras as soon as they go up. Well, with £12.50 a trip because they don't have a Tesla, who can blame them? Labour is going to win there in a landslide, but I doubt that will change things, unless the Reform Party gets a decent showing.

IMO, the whole green scam is collapsing, both in Europe and the US. Trump, like him or not, will do a Grover Cleveland and win a second non consecutive term and become the 47th POTUS, and watch their economy then, freed from the shackles of green ideology. Australia is is about three years behind the curve, as usual.

Lots more to say, but I can't be bothered. Go ahead and post your pretty graphs. I really should have known better.

have you had a look out the window in the last 25 years and noticed what is happening to the weather ??

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Originally Posted by Hopalong

have you had a look out the window in the last 25 years and noticed what is happening to the weather ??

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Since I have been able to do so, so 65 years. So what? Weather is NOT climate, no matter what the tv tells you. Only two months ago they were saying it'll be an El Nino and buckle up for the bushfire season, worst ever. Now, it's another La Nina. They have no idea what is really happening because they can't see past the modelling.

I can provide a bunch of links that would show you this, but I doubt you would be interested, you already "know".

That's it.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

The lines that went down were the main 500KV feed to the Portland Smelter, bugger all residential and commercial load on them. This line is fed straight from Loy Yang and the fault current tripped the main yard. Load shedding then commenced which put around 350,000 customers off. The other 150,000 off are due to the storms and local lines going down. As Loy Yang comes back on line - a big job on its own as all turbines tripped when the yard did - most will have their power back pretty quickly. There was a recorded downburst during the storm where the pylons were flattened. Could be interesting to see if the smelter uses this as an opportunity to pull the pin.

It’s been a busy afternoon but I’ve been chatting to Ops from all Supply Authorities this arvo - they have a busy week ahead of them.

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They did very well Homestar to get interim repairs to the 500kv line completed within 2 days.

Portland Aluminium would have been in a precarious position without the Mortlake power station.

Would be interesting to see how they managed this.

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