Monthly Archives: May 2016

Following the loss of the Basslink interconnector in late December 2015 there has been a lot of interest in and concern about the state of electricity supply in Tasmania, most of which comes from decades-old hydroelectric systems. This post gives … Continue reading →

In this post I show the local electricity generation and net import for each region of the Australian NEM around the time (7:30 am EST) of a power outage at the Adelaide electric railway system on the 28th April 2016. … Continue reading →

In this post I show the sources of electricity in the Australian NEM region for one particular morning, that of the 28th April 2016. Tasmania was (and currently still is) disconnected from the NEM, and is not included. The morning … Continue reading →

Following the recent closure of Northern Power Station (coal) the remaining unsung hero of electricity generation in South Australia has to be Torrens Power Station, currently able to supply 1280 MW of dispatchable power. We have seen in a previous … Continue reading →

South Australia has a modest amount of wind power, at around 1.5 GW nameplate capacity, but it also has a modest demand for electricity, and there are times when wind power can meet or exceed total demand. The state has … Continue reading →

Previous posts have dealt with low wind power output during certain South Australian heatwaves. This post shows more examples, the aim being to establish an approximate figure for the wind power that can be relied upon during heatwaves. In summer … Continue reading →

In the previous post I showed that wind power was largely AWOL at critical times during the peak electricity demand heatwave of December 2015 in South Australia . This post looks at how peak demand was met during that heatwave, … Continue reading →