[AusNOG] Adelaide Power Issue - DR planning

[Chris Hurley]

Given the topics running this week on threat matrix's from low level chance
/ high impact etc this appears to be case of a known event coming ie bad
weather It was forecast days in advance as being possibly hugely damaging.
Why wasn't it better planned for?

It appears little was done to mitigate if breakers kicked in to drop them
off the grid. Yes breakers needed to kick in BUT no one looked at powering
up base load ahead of the time to restore the system. Coal or to a lesser
extent gas fired generators take time to wind up to speed ie several hours.
Surely they could have been 'fired' up ahead of time.

Some one also forgot wind is useless in very high winds. You have to turn
them off or they 'destroy' themselves. There are already reports of
political finger pointing.

The issue has become politicised already, as South Australian Senator Nick
Xenophon called the state government's renewable energy strategy
"wreckless". Xenophon told the ABC "this is a textbook case of how not to do
it" and "if heads have to roll, then so be it."

Chris

From:  AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of John Edwards
<jaedwards at gmail.com>
Date:  Wednesday, 28 September 2016 8:01 PM
To:  Bradley Amm <Bradley.Amm at telethonkids.org.au>
Cc:  "<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] Adelaide Power Issue

Lights, lifts, gensets, carpark boom gates, traffic chaos.

But the standout DR surprise was electric hand driers in the office
bathroom, damnit!

John

Sent from my iPhone

On 28 Sep. 2016, at 5:52 pm, Bradley Amm <Bradley.Amm at telethonkids.org.au>
wrote:

> I watched the day the earth stood still the other night on Foxtel Movies.
> Everything in our society these days relies on power. Water, Food, Transport,
> Communications, Health Care
> Hospitals and airports plan for this but still shows you how much we rely on
> things we take for granted
>  
>  
> 
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Dylan
> Chidgey
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 3:10 PM
> To: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: [AusNOG] Adelaide Power Issue
>  
> Hi All
>  
> Just a heads that most of SA is without power so don¹t bother calling your
> upstream providers.
>  
> SA Power Networks website is down so presume its locally hosted.
>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Dylan Chidgey
> Network Operations Manager
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