{"id":200952,"date":"2024-12-07T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/south-australia-has-the-most-wind-and-solar-and-no-baseload-so-why-is-it-the-only-state-not-fretting-about-a-vulnerable-grid"},"modified":"2024-12-07T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:06:44","slug":"south-australia-has-the-most-wind-and-solar-and-no-baseload-so-why-is-it-the-only-state-not-fretting-about-a-vulnerable-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/south-australia-has-the-most-wind-and-solar-and-no-baseload-so-why-is-it-the-only-state-not-fretting-about-a-vulnerable-grid","title":{"rendered":"South Australia has the most wind and solar and no baseload: So why is it the only state not fretting about a vulnerable grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-australia-has-the-most-wind-and-solar-and-no-baseload-so-why-is-it-the-only-state-not-fretting-about-a-vulnerable-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Australia has the highest wind and solar share \u2013 an average of around 72 per cent over the last 12 months \u2013 vastly more than other state in Australia, and higher than any other gigawatt scale grid in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy critics, particularly those that don\u2019t understand the way that grids work, instantly assume that this means South Australia\u2019s grid must be weak and unreliable. But that is simply not true, and a new report from Australian Energy Market Operator on \u201csystem strength\u201d underlines why this is so.<\/p>\n<p>System strength is an important part of grid security, and \u2013 according to AEMO \u2013 describes the ability of the power system to maintain and control the voltage waveform at a given location, when the grid is running normally and particularly when it has to deal with a major disturbance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia has the highest wind and solar share \u2013 an average of around 72 per cent over the last 12 months \u2013 vastly more than other state in Australia, and higher than any other gigawatt scale grid in the world. Renewable energy critics, particularly those that don\u2019t understand the way that grids work, instantly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200952","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}