{"id":114319,"date":"2020-10-13T07:35:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/solar-meets-100-per-cent-of-south-australia-demand-for-first-time"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:35:27","slug":"solar-meets-100-per-cent-of-south-australia-demand-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/solar-meets-100-per-cent-of-south-australia-demand-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Solar meets 100 per cent of South Australia demand for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-meets-100-per-cent-of-south-australia-demand-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The combination of rooftop and utility scale solar met 100 per cent of demand in South Australia for the first time on Sunday, reaching a milestone that will surely be repeated many times over \u2013 and for longer periods \u2013 in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone was reached at 12.05pm grid time (Australian eastern standard time), with rooftop solar providing 992MW, or 76.3 per cent of state demand, and utility scale solar providing a further 315MW \u2013 meaning all three of the state\u2019s big solar farms, Bungala 1m Bungala 2 and Tailem Bend were operating at full capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of rooftop and utility scale solar met 100 per cent of demand in South Australia for the first time on Sunday, reaching a milestone that will surely be repeated many times over \u2013 and for longer periods \u2013 in the future. The milestone was reached at 12.05pm grid time (Australian eastern standard time), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}