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SA Hunter Head Administrator Posts: 11,421 Likes: 9,572 Email: sahunter@iinet.net.au	Life after losing electricity. Jul 1, 2020 19:00:52 GMT 10 blueshoes likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by SA Hunter on Jul 1, 2020 19:00:52 GMT 10 www.griddownconsulting.com/life-without-electricity A good read, initially posted on day to day preppers forum.
	Regards, SA Hunter Head Administrator FaceBook: www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Preparedness-Forum/318075948332852?ref=hl Better to die standing up than to live on your knees.

bug Senior Member Posts: 2,316 Likes: 1,934 Member is Online	Life after losing electricity. Jul 1, 2020 19:45:05 GMT 10 SA Hunter likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by bug on Jul 1, 2020 19:45:05 GMT 10 The grid going down is getting less likely now. Big $ being spend reinforcing it. Still, a coronal mass ejection could knock it out temporarily and put everyone on rolling blackouts for a very long time.
	Thought criminal.

SA Hunter Head Administrator Posts: 11,421 Likes: 9,572 Email: sahunter@iinet.net.au	Life after losing electricity. Jul 1, 2020 19:58:30 GMT 10 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by SA Hunter on Jul 1, 2020 19:58:30 GMT 10 Power granted to switch off household solar in SA to prevent statewide blackout. www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-19/solar-boom-puts-sa-at-risk-of-another-statewide-blackout/12372558 Seems SA is now more at risk.
	Regards, SA Hunter Head Administrator FaceBook: www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Preparedness-Forum/318075948332852?ref=hl Better to die standing up than to live on your knees.

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Post by blueshoes on Jul 2, 2020 6:54:35 GMT 10

Youguys do realise Victoria's main generators havehad tp be shipped off to germany at least three times in the last 18 months to be fixed ... they need replacing badly, but the greenies have no plan for baseload power and won't let us build a newer coal station. It's only a matter of time before victoria has serious power reliability issues too, its not just SA.

I could see Vic and SA both going down at the same time this summer, if too many parts of a Loy Yang generator cark it at once. For like a week. Then we build a new coal plant in a hurry, or become a 2nd world country.

Also, because most of the inverters on household solar cell systems don't have 50hz oscillators in em, even having solar isn't going to help many people ...

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Life after losing electricity. Jul 2, 2020 7:14:21 GMT 10 SA Hunter and blueshoes like this

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Post by Beno on Jul 2, 2020 7:14:21 GMT 10

Not just the greenies having no plan but the banks, investment companies, shareholders, superfunds etc etc. coal is not turning a profit anymore so why invest. It’s a difficult transition while the issue is so polarising.

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Post by bug on Jul 2, 2020 8:01:11 GMT 10

Rooftop solar does not provide grid stability. The inverters don't have all the 'smarts' that utility scale solar farms are required to.
What is new though is that there are now generators everywhere in the country instead of in a couple of places. 10 years ago a fault at south morang disconnected one third of Melbourne from the Latrobe valley, blacking out 1 million people's homes. This is no longer a realistic scenario. The site has been partially rebuilt to fix it.

There is about to be a 330kV connection between NSW and SA built. This will be big enough for SA to run with no local generation.

There will be a 500kV connection from Vic to NSW in the next 10 years.

With pumped hydro increasing, batteries being installed with most new solar/wind farms and a second basslink cable, we're not far away from being able to do without Loy Yang.

Thought criminal.

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