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| Age reporter, Lucy Battersby. |
That's pretty much the situation right now on the Apple
Isle, which has just 14 per cent capacity
in its hydro-electric dams and its main supply cable wiped out by a mystery
fault.
Tasmanians haven't had any brownouts yet, but the state is
now relying on 150 diesel generators and a decommissioned power plant to keep
electricity supplies up until the winter rains arrive to replenish water
levels. That's right, in 2016 an entire Australian state is relying on
emergency generators.
Read Lucy Battersby’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Tasmania relying on 150 diesel generators for electricity until June.”
(Tasmania is caught
in the middle of what might be termed a “perfect storm”. The Australian state
has long depended upon its usually generous rainfall to regularly top up its
dam system to cover its electricity needs and less than a decade ago it was
connected to Victoria’s coal-fired power system via an under-sea cable known as
“Basslink”.
The link failed, it
can’t be repaired until at least June this year, changes to the weather system
(climate change in action) have had a ruinous
impact on rainfall and now Tasmania is dependent upon diesel-powered emergency generators to cover its power needs.
Diesel
is, of course, is a fossil fuel and so Tasmania seeks the solution to its troubles
in the devil that caused them - Robert McLean.)
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