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SA's total generation from coal, gas and cogen is under 2 GW I believe, making BHP's request for another .7 GW untenable. I mentioned that some SA rellies tried to escape the record March heatwave by going to the beach on Yorke Peninsula next to the 91 MW wind farm there. However it was almost completely becalmed.
I think wind power needs a storage breakthrough not just building more of them.
I don't think more wind is a problem - we need lots more, and coastal SA isn't a bad location for many reasons.
Besides storage, for hot, calm days we also need large scale CSP in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD (WA remains an island so I'll ignore them) and more interconnectors as well.
The MRET should be ratcheted up at 2.5% per year for the next 38 years - that would solve the problem and we'd end up with a good portfolio of renewables as people explored every little niche and built in storage to try to take advantage of peak pricing.