South Australia - What A Future With Wind Energy Looks Like

Interconnectors and Wind Energy go hand in hand. Like South Australia, Ireland has had bad experiences with interconnectors. The Moyle Interconnector linking Scotland and Northern Ireland went out of action in 2011 and since then only half of its capacity is working. Wind energy, as we all know, is intermittent and cant be relied on to produce power when needed. Hence, why it is given a very low capacity credit. So if you combine the two you are asking for trouble. S.Australia experienced a blackout yesterday - here is what a "Green" future looks like :

“We’ve always relied to some degree on the Victorian interconnector — that’s why it’s there, it’s been there for 25 years.

“Many times other supply will kick in and there’s always stuff on standby, but in this case it may well have been the size of the load.”

When the Victorian system shut down, 160 megawatts of energy was lost and wind power did not supply energy because it often does not start until 3am.

Mr Roberts said when outages were planned, people on life support were notified.

But last night’s blackout “caught everyone by surprise”, despite the fact Victoria had issued a low level risk notice for a power outage for the past seven weeks.

Mr Roberts said a review would be conducted into the widespread outage.