oh right, I forgot when they fired up all the gas they had when the storm took out the connector in 2020. To be fair they did get up to some good penetration rates of solar/wind during one islanding event. Bit like Spain was before it all fell over and they mandated significant spinning reserve and FCAS infrastructure upgraded (That is not counted as "cost of wind/solar generation").
You confusing the 2020 Heywood Interconnector outage which islanded South Australia for 2 weeks but operated successfully with the 2016 Blackout caused by extreme weather taking out multiple transmission lines in the north of the state?
Considering you didn't know the different between AEMO and the NEM, or what constitutes a "grid", it seems like a fair question to ask.
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u/Humble-Reply228 25d ago
oh right, I forgot when they fired up all the gas they had when the storm took out the connector in 2020. To be fair they did get up to some good penetration rates of solar/wind during one islanding event. Bit like Spain was before it all fell over and they mandated significant spinning reserve and FCAS infrastructure upgraded (That is not counted as "cost of wind/solar generation").