ELECTRIC POWER FAILURES – SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Heat stress: power crisis hits home

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Original article by Perry Williams, Rachel Baxendale
The Australian – Page: 1 & 5 : 25-Jan-19

The Australian Energy Market Operator asked power users in Victoria and South Australia to cut their electricity usage on 24 January as the electricity grid struggled to cope with soaring temperatures. Households were urged not to use appliances such as washing machines during peak periods, while Alcoa was asked to cut production at its aluminium smelter in Victoria for around two hours in the evening. Around 20,000 households in Adelaide were hit by blackouts, although no blackouts are expected on 25 January, with a cool change due for both states.

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AUSTRALIAN ENERGY MARKET OPERATOR LIMITED, ALCOA OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED, AGL ENERGY LIMITED – ASX AGL, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, ENERGYAUSTRALIA PTY LTD

Musk’s SA big battery to begin testing

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The Australian – Page: Online : 24-Nov-17

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says Tesla has finished installing its 100-megawatt battery at Jamestown. The battery is located next to a wind farm, and Weatherill says that testing of the battery will now begin. He says that the battery, which is the biggest of its kind of the world, will be ready in time for the 2017-18 summer. The battery forms an important part of South Australia’s $A530 million energy plan, which it adopted following a statewide power blackout in 2016.

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TESLA INCORPORATED, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PREMIER AND CABINET

Global energy expert flags nation’s grid, gas supply as keys to review

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Original article by Angela Macdonald-Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 11 : 3-Nov-16

The International Energy Agency has agreed to provide its opinion on Australia’s power generation policy to the Finkel review of energy security. Fatih Birol, the head of the agency, said many countries have problems with intermittent supply of power from renewable sources but none of them experienced an event on the scale of the state-wide blackout which occurred in South Australia in September 2016.

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INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS

Lawsuit looms over wind shutdown

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Original article by Rebecca Puddy, Annabel Hepworth
The Australian – Page: 1 & 6 : 20-Oct-16

Litigation funder IMF Bentham will consider a class action on behalf of businesses that were affected by the state-wide power outage which occurred in South Australia on 28 September 2016. The Australian Energy Market Operator issued an update to its preliminary report on 19 October. AEMO identified six disturbances in the network which caused voltage problems at nine wind farms. Companies are assessing the impact of the blackout on their operations.

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IMF BENTHAM LIMITED – ASX IMF, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF INDUSTRY, AUSTRALIAN ENERGY MARKET OPERATOR LIMITED, OZ MINERALS LIMITED – ASX OZL, CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL LIMITED, PACIFIC HYDRO LIMITED, SA POWER NETWORKS, AGL ENERGY LIMITED – ASX AGL, NYRSTAR AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, KORDA MENTHA AND COLLEAGUES PTY LTD, MANUFACTURING AUSTRALIA LIMITED, NEOEN AUSTRALIA

Arrium pushes to free itself from state grid

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Original article by Sid Maher
The Australian – Page: 6 : 5-Oct-16

The Whyalla steelworks could become energy self-sufficient if plans put forward by Arrium’s administrator Mark Korda come to fruition. Full power has yet to be restored to the steelworks and Arrium’s iron ore mining operations following South Australia’s state-wide power outage. Korda is holding talks with the State Government and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation about financing to convert the steelworks’ energy supply to a combination of natural gas and its own waste gases.

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ARRIUM LIMITED – ASX ARI, KORDA MENTHA AND COLLEAGUES PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. CLEAN ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION, AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ UNION-FEDERATION OF INDUSTRIAL, MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES

Stop point scoring and plan, says industry

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Original article by Ben Potter
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 4-Oct-16

Bruce Mountain of Carbon Market Economics rejects suggestions that the state-wide power outage in South Australia could have been avoided if its coal-fired power plant had not been decommissioned. Meanwhile, Energy Users Association of Australia chairman Brian Morris has urged both sides of federal politics to co-operate in developing a national energy policy. A similar view has been expressed by Tony Wood of the Grattan Institute.

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CARBON MARKET ECONOMICS PTY LTD, ENERGY USERS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, GRATTAN INSTITUTE, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE, BHP BILLITON LIMITED – ASX BHP, ARRIUM LIMITED – ASX ARI

Miners face $150m hit from blackout

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Original article by Matt Chambers
The Australian – Page: 17 & 27 : 4-Oct-16

OZ Minerals has advised that electric power is unlikely to be restored at its Prominent Hill mine in South Australia for at least another week, while its 2016-17 gold production forecast may not be met as a result. The recent state-wide power outage also halted production at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine and Arrium’s Whyalla steelworks. Meanwhile, the suspension of production at Nyrstar’s lead smelter at Port Pirie is believed to have contributed to a spike in the price of lead on the London Metal Exchange.

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OZ MINERALS LIMITED – ASX OZL, BHP BILLITON LIMITED – ASX BHP, ARRIUM LIMITED – ASX ARI, NYRSTAR AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, LONDON METAL EXCHANGE LIMITED, KORDA MENTHA AND COLLEAGUES PTY LTD