Three months to back up the grid as risk of summer blackouts ramps up

Australia’s energy regulator has three months to sort out back up plans to prevent blackouts, after it found that delays to key energy projects could cause power outages during a summer heatwave on the eastern seaboard.

Power outage warnings issued by AEMO over energy project delays (theage.com.au)

"While AEMO is allowing for project delays, the Commonwealth-owned corporation Snowy Hydro is confident its fast-start gas plant at Kurri Kurri in NSW will be completed by December – making it the second new plant in NSW in the past decade after EnergyAustralia’s Tallawarra plant in the Illawarra.

Snowy’s new gas peaker would fill three times over the gap in supply needed to eliminate AEMO’s reliability warning for NSW."


That is what is needed, more gas supply and more gas peakers, no point building more wind farms to sit idle alongside the ones that are already idle 65% of the time.