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Date/Time 17 Mar 2014 4:20:21pm
Interesting conclusion... Wind power output was low so high cost gas power plants had to operate which made the power not generated by the wind farms expensive (rather than the power generated by the gas power plants).

I understand the spot price for power can peek at $20,000 per MWh. Even Hydro Tasmania with it's little connection to the national grid can push the price up that high as it has shown.

I would suggest that rather than putting all of your (SA) eggs in the one carbon basket, South Australia should instead diversify it's generating capacity (solar) and investigate possible large scale energy storage solutions.

In future I suspect, energy sourced from fossil fuels will also incur substantial financial penalties, both domestically and internationally (when the penny drops and CO2 abatement is finally accepted as a dire necessity.... ie. when the carbon bubble bursts).