BZE Technology Radio Show: 7 Oct 2016: Podcast:

Dylan McConnell of the Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne, discusses South Australia’s recent state-wide blackout following once in 50-year storms. It is extraordinary! Politicians and some media have been claiming that the state’s wind generators caused the blackout.

Beyond Zero Emissions

Radio 3CR in Melbourne

Further reading

Links to numerous articles authored by Dylan McConnell in The Conversation

We don’t know why South Australia’s wind farms stopped working, so hold off on the blame game

(The Conversation: 7 Oct 2016: McConnell)

What caused South Australia’s state-wide blackout?

(The Conversation: 29 Sep 2016: McConnell)

Dylan McConnel Twitter

Report:

Winds of change: SA wholesale electricity market developments

Key words

Electricity grid, Storms, wind energy, renewable energy, transmission lines, blackout, targets