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12 days of blackouts for Victoria? big high-price and blackout events for Victoria, in summer - as usual

Maximum Daily USE in Victoria -Feb 2011

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An El Nino was expected to keep winter dry in the SE, and a 2250MW generation deficit was expected in Victoria over 12 days of February, 2011. The graph showed the days of likely drought-induced high prices and blackouts. See the forecast days of blackout events, above. A catastrophic drought still covered Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia; this suggested very high prices and very high risk of blackouts for summer.

 May spread to South Australia and Tasmania:
If the weather was hot, this could spread to South Australia and Tasmania, as Victoria would probably cease to export to other regions.   ...Log in to read rest of Article or image.
(2009-07-03)

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Article in: [Water Week][Energy User][Electricity Week][EWN Publishing]
Article Tags: [ Energy - General ][ Consumer Issues ][ Water(Utilities) ][ Energy - Electricity ]


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