Welcome to the new complexified energy grid where a cloud can cause a system black event — knocking out power for as much as nine hours. This affected the hospital for 30 minutes and the prolonged problems caused many businesses and supermarkets to close. Alice Springs is an island microgrid servicing about 29,000 people in the centre of Australia. It was 38 degrees C yesterday when the power went out. Shame about those fridges and air conditioning units.
Alice Springs is a mini version of larger grids showing how fragile these new complicated systems of multiple generators based on weather events and batteries can be.
Looks modern, sometimes has electricity too. Alice Springs | Photo by Stefano, Wikimedia.
Yesterday: Thousands impacted by Alice Springs power blackout, calls for compensation
by Joanne Crothers, ABC
Authorities are still trying to determine why a generator in Alice Springs failed, causing a widespread blackout that impacted thousands of people. “The system black was caused by a major generation failure,” chief executive Tim Duignan said.
Power was out from 2:45pm til midnight for many people, and may have returned finally, just in time to stop compensation payments:
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October 15, 2019 at 01:55AM
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