Weather or not?

 The Grattan Institute warned, prior to the recent power blackout in South Australia, that in the event of an outage of the Victorian supply link, "the prospect of a regional blackout in SA increases with more {dependence on} wind generation...The intermittent nature of wind, which now generates 40 per cent SA's electricity, creates challenges for the price and reliability of power generation...The increased penetration of renewables ...can have consequences for the security and stability of the electricity system".  the Institute conclude that state-based renewable targets are likely to drive up power costs 'for no net environmental benefit' and seeks a national lower-emissions policy, while acknowledging the impact of replacing coal at $50 per kilowatt hour with gas, wind or solar at beween$80 to $100.


Taken from an article written by Michael Baume in The Spectator Australia 8 October 2016.

 

It won't be long before we will not need to look outside, to determine the state of the weather.  Fog, strong cold wind, dark skies, and blinding rain, prolonged dry spells of searing heat, and days of burning winds and weeks of clear, windless, blue skies will, for the ill equipped or unfunded be accompanied by silence and muted light inside homes, as renewable energy sources fail to produce warmth or cool, castrated by the figure of weather, blind to, and unaware of our discomfort.