WIND Power Collapses Send Power Prices Into Orbit in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia
Posted: April 17, 2018 Filed under: Australia, Energy Poverty, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Global Warming, Government grants, Green Energy, Green Energy Failure, NEG, Renewable energy, renewables, RET, SA Blackout, South Australia, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power, wind revolt Leave a comment“In order to ‘encourage’ SA’s fossil fuel fleet into action, the grid manager was forced to pay a spot price of $5,077 per MWh…”
IT’S no wonder wind ‘powered’ South Australia has, officially, the highest power prices in-the-world! 🤦♂️
Wind power outfits often claim that their particular operation ‘powers’ 30,000 homes; RE zealots even claim that South Australians get 50% of their power from the sun and wind.
Whacked with the obvious retort of ‘when?’, the wind cultist changes tack and starts mumbling about mega-batteries (non-existent and insanely costly), pumped hydro (non-existent and costly) and then starts ranting about an evil fossil fuel conspiracy.
South Australia is the shining example of the true cost and absolute chaos that comes with attempting to run on sunshine and breezes.
Set out above, courtesy of Aneroid Energy, is the output from every wind turbine in SA during the merry month of March (with a notional capacity of 1,810 MW).
Even if you add in the piddling 100 MW capacity of its $150,000,000 Elon Musk special, it’s pretty clear that collapses in the order of 700 to 1,200 MW (which occur…
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