{"id":278677,"date":"2023-09-14T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278677"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:53:27","slug":"wind-solar-transition-turns-trainwreck-australians-face-more-summer-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278677","title":{"rendered":"Wind & Solar \u2018Transition\u2019 Turns Trainwreck: Australians Face More Summer\u00a0Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dry spells, spell hot summers in Australia, which spell load shedding and mass blackouts, whenever the sun sets and\/or calm weather sets in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer of 2017\/18 was a scorcher. Back then, load shedding caught power consumers short in South Australia, Victoria and NSW. Energy-hungry businesses such as aluminium smelters and even hospitals were forced to power down during a run of scorching days and nights, when temperatures soared and wind power output plummeted: Australia Closes Coal-Fired Power Plants: Hospitals Forced to Cut Power Use & Power Prices Rocket<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 years on, the situation is even more perilous, with the closure of several large coal-fired power plants and even more chaotic wind and solar added to the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretending to rely on sunshine and breezes for power brings with it plenty of opportunities for freezing or boiling in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, Australia is experiencing below-average rainfall; once again, Australians will feel the heat this summer; and, once again Australian power consumers and businesses will be chopped unceremoniously from the grid when temperatures rise and wind and solar output collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky News\u2019 Chris Kenny takes up the subject with the Federal Shadow Energy Minister, Ted O\u2019Brien in the interview below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Not surprising\u2019: Warnings Australia could face power outages<\/strong>
Sky News
Chris Kenny and Ted O\u2019Brien
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Shadow Climate Change and Energy Minister Ted O\u2019Brien says AMEO\u2019s warning to the government that Australia could potentially experience blackouts over the upcoming summer isn\u2019t surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it should be surprising to anyone who has been following this to think that Australians are now paying among the highest electricity bills in the world, and they\u2019re now being told that they have to brace for a very likely possibility of a blackout,\u201d he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s extraordinary to think we\u2019re in Australia of all places, such a developed, wealthy, prosperous country, and we\u2019re all saying, \u2018I hope the weather is going to be okay, otherwise the lights will go out; it shouldn\u2019t be like this.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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