You should be publicly tried crackpot. In your gaza home you’d be sent out fully vested.
Oopsie solar-battery fail? Cloud causes System Black event at Alice Springs affecting thousands
Welcome to the new complexified energy grid where a cloud can cause a system black event — knocking out power for as much as nine hours. This affected the hospital for 30 minutes and the prolonged problems caused many businesses and supermarkets to close. Alice Springs is an island microgrid servicing about 29,000 people in the centre of Australia. It was 38 degrees C yesterday when the power went out. Shame about those fridges and air conditioning units.
Alice Springs is a mini version of larger grids showing how fragile these new complicated systems of multiple generators based on weather events and batteries can be.
 Looks modern, sometimes has electricity too. Alice Springs | Photo by Stefano, Wikimedia.
Yesterday: Thousands impacted by Alice Springs power blackout, calls for compensation by Joanne Crothers, ABC News
Authorities are still trying to determine why a generator in Alice Springs failed, causing a widespread blackout that impacted thousands of people. “The system black was caused by a major generation failure,” chief executive Tim Duignan said.
Power was out from 2:45pm til midnight for many people, and may have returned finally, just in time to avoid compensation payments:
Territory Generation said it was also unclear whether its service level agreement meant it would be responsible for compensating customers after blackouts that last more than 10 hours.
Today: Inquiry called, and explanations garbled — NT Chief Minister announces reviewSteve Vivian, ABC News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner told ABC Darwin Breakfast the outage stemmed from a generation issue.
“We’re not quite sure what’s happened there,” he said. “It shouldn’t happen … there seems to be an unacceptable failure here between the battery and the gensets [generation sets]. “We should be able to handle switches between solar and gensets.”
Caused by a cloud? I defy anyone to interpret this sentence literally:
The outage was caused by a cloud which rolled in to Alice Springs about 2:00pm on Sunday, which caused a “reasonably large increase” to the system, Mr Duignan said. “That resulted in the majority of our units going into an overload condition,” he said.
“Those units stayed in an overload condition for a number of minutes before they tripped off on their protection systems … the battery energy storage system went to full output before it tripped off as a consequence of the outage.”
And the words “solar failure” are never to be spoken.
Apparently there were many warning signs and engineers saw it all coming From April 2019: “Without old power station we’d be ‘stuffed’: ETU”A letter to the Editor of Alice Springs News, from the ETU = Electrical Trades Union
Sir – The majority of the 29,000 residents of Alice Springs were without power on Easter Sunday after a cable fault in the Desert Springs and Mount Johns area.
This is the second time in 10 days major power outages have affected the Alice Springs network. We praise the PowerWater (PWC) and Territory Generation (TGen) front line workers for their dedication and expertise which ensured a timely restoration of supply, but we have major concerns about future reliability of the Alice power supply.
Concerns relate to the ability of the new Owen Springs Power Station (OSPS) to consistently maintaining supply to the network without the Ron Goodin Power Station (RGPS) being available. There are also questions remaining around the Battery Energy Storage System’s (BESS) actual functions.
We are disappointed that TGen and the Government were failing to respond to workers’ concerns about the compressed timeline for the closure of RGPS. This blackout and the previous blackout show clearly that without backup of Ron Goodin Power Station (pictured), the Alice would have been stuffed. Without RGPS being available as it is currently we have no idea how long Alice Springs residents would have been without power after both these recent events.
Dave “Strawbs” Hayes
ETU NT Organiser
Oct 14, 2019 Probe into Alice Springs power outageAAP, The Canberra Times
“The guys on the front line live and breathe this stuff and they have been saying for months that Ron Goodin Power Station was prematurely closed and that Owen Springs was not adequately tested to ensure continuity of supply,” union organiser Dave Hayes said.
This is what happens when electrical grids are run by climate scientists and not engineers.
h/t Dave B |
