The South Australian Political Landscape

[stan]

NSW lucky to avoid load shedding.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/insecure-state-gas-generator-failures-in-heatwave-pushed-nsw-to-the-brink-20170222-guigsd.html

Nah they were fine. Apparently a few vic towns might needed to have been shed so that NSW all had power......

Im sure that would gone down well.

This national energy market is working well.

Can't have NSW suffering, everything important in Australia happens there.

Victoria are very happy with this. Also askng for a please explain.

[Jimmy_041]

NSW lucky to avoid load shedding.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/insecure-state-gas-generator-failures-in-heatwave-pushed-nsw-to-the-brink-20170222-guigsd.html

Nah they were fine. Apparently a few vic towns might needed to have been shed so that NSW all had power......

Im sure that would gone down well.

This national energy market is working well.

Can't have NSW suffering, everything important in Australia happens there.

Victoria are very happy with this. Also askng for a please explain.

Jay would have rung Dan and got him on board the whinge train

[stan]

[quote="wild dog"]NSW lucky to avoid load shedding.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/insecure-state-gas-generator-failures-in-heatwave-pushed-nsw-to-the-brink-20170222-guigsd.html

Nah they were fine. Apparently a few vic towns might needed to have been shed so that NSW all had power......

Im sure that would gone down well.

This national energy market is working well.

Can't have NSW suffering, everything important in Australia happens there.

Victoria are very happy with this. Also askng for a please explain.

Jay would have rung Dan and got him on board the whinge train[/quote]
I dont know about that, I feel Victoria have a case here. They carried themselves and a few other states and then had the risk of load shedding themselves.

[Jimmy_041]

The interesting thing is how Jay has now thrown BHP under the bus to save his own political life

So much for the business friendly state with these idiots in charge

[Psyber]

Molten salt has also been being kicked around for a long time without being taken up in any substantial way.

Here is another option.
It will be interesting to see which system wins the storage race.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-08/v ... ge/8094376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery

However modern safe fission offers unlimited capacity and ongoing supply when storage may run out after several days of poor input from renewable sources.

I came across this additional variant today:
https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/redflo ... ge-market/

[Grenville]

Minister for burnouts Tom Kuntzanarnus has assured us the fires at Torrens Island power facility are all sweet. I'm convinced.

[stan]

Minister for burnouts Tom Kuntzanarnus has assured us the fires at Torrens Island power facility are all sweet. I'm convinced.

A transform exploded. The fire is out but we are a bit ****** now because we feed from B plant. Well until the switchyard and the transformer is repaired and or replaced.

So Tom right. Fire no worries. But no power either.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Nick X starting up SA Best for the State election

[Gozu]

The South Australian Government should consider buying or leasing a gas-fired electricity generator to help stabilise the state's expensive and unreliable power supply, South Australia's influential Economic Development Board says.

The recommendation was made to the Government late last month, according to evidence given to the SA Parliament's Statutory Authorities Review Committee.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/t ... on/8331228

Interesting

[stan]

The South Australian Government should consider buying or leasing a gas-fired electricity generator to help stabilise the state's expensive and unreliable power supply, South Australia's influential Economic Development Board says.

The recommendation was made to the Government late last month, according to evidence given to the SA Parliament's Statutory Authorities Review Committee.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/t ... on/8331228

Interesting

Yea but Jays not keen. Would have been a good idea. Also when Alinta offered up Northern the should have taken that. Imagine having Northern and Pelican Point controlled by the government, would be an interesting situation. But Jay said the government dont want to get back into power generation.

[Jimmy_041]

The South Australian Government should consider buying or leasing a gas-fired electricity generator to help stabilise the state's expensive and unreliable power supply, South Australia's influential Economic Development Board says.

The recommendation was made to the Government late last month, according to evidence given to the SA Parliament's Statutory Authorities Review Committee.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/t ... on/8331228

Interesting

Yea but Jays not keen. Would have been a good idea. Also when Alinta offered up Northern the should have taken that. Imagine having Northern and Pelican Point controlled by the government, would be an interesting situation. But Jay said the government dont want to get back into power generation.

Apart from the $500m hit to debt (which has already risen about $3Bn in this term of govt despite the lies and financial magic), it is clear Weatherill has no plan to fix the problem. There is a current energy strategic plan: http://saplan.org.au/targets/64-renewable-energy That's working well for everyone. Still, Turbo blames the Feds
Amazing that the Energy Minister conveniently ignores the fact that he was abundantly warned by both his department (which, astonishingly, he says he never read) and the EDB in July last year, he continues to blame everyone else.

[Psyber]

The campaigns are warming up. I interviewed one of the 5 candidates for the Liberal Party nomination for Heysen today, as, unlike in the ALP selection process, they have to win the support of party members in the electorate who get to vote on who gets the nomination as candidate, and not just the party bureaucrats.

One plus is that he is not a lawyer - my argument is that lawyers are more interested in winning the argument than deciding what would be best - and most of my lawyer friends concede that point.

[Booney]

The campaigns are warming up. I interviewed one of the 5 candidates for the Liberal Party nomination for Heysen today, as, unlike in the ALP selection process, they have to win the support of party members in the electorate who get to vote on who gets the nomination as candidate, and not just the party bureaucrats.

One plus is that he is not a lawyer - my argument is that lawyers are more interested in winning the argument than deciding what would be best - and most of my lawyer friends concede that point.

Any chance you fine chaps send someone worthy of consideration into Port Adelaide? Look, lamb to the slaughter I know, but it's one seat that needs a shake up and the last two elections the candidate has stepped forward ( or all others stepped back ) about 2 weeks from the election.

Whilst it's a strongly held seat people are starting to look at alternatives, options, I've got a feeling X will have a crack in the area.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Safe Labor seat down that way, Liberals won't waste their money

[Booney]

Safe Labor seat down that way, Liberals won't waste their money

I agree, but as I said the winds of change are blowing and I expect Mr X and his team to have a crack in the area, the "old" people of the Port are starting to disappear and maybe not this election but I certainly believe the next could see a swing in the area away from Labor. I'd be pushing in now if I were either X or Lib.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Yeah the X factor would and should.
Liberals I don't think would.
I'm assuming Labor have got complacent down there.

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[bennymacca]

Safe seats of either side are bad

[Booney]

Safe seats of either side are bad

Absolutely.

[Psyber]

Safe Labor seat down that way, Liberals won't waste their money

I agree, but as I said the winds of change are blowing and I expect Mr X and his team to have a crack in the area, the "old" people of the Port are starting to disappear and maybe not this election but I certainly believe the next could see a swing in the area away from Labor. I'd be pushing in now if I were either X or Lib.

It can happen. I remember a time in the 1980s when the ALP Caucus put up an outsider from the left faction for Semaphore over a local candidate who was the secretary of the local ALP branch. Locals were irate about he outsider they referred to as "That bloody Commo!", and the local Secretary quit the ALP and romped it in as an independent candidate.

[stan]

Honestly this has to be the election the libs win. Surely they couldn't stuff up, surely.

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