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POWER has been restored to most South Australian homes after a widespread blackout put thousands into darkness, when the state lost electricity supply from Victoria.
A spokesman for SA Power Networks said the state lost supply from upstream when the interconnector shut down, triggering an automatic loss of power load shedding in SA, resulting widespread outages.
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But without the back up of evil fossil fuel generation, more such blackouts will happen. This a glimpse of a carbon neutral power generation. High costs and low reliablity.Renewables now account for 39 per cent of our electricity generation which is way ahead of the original target we set of 20 per cent. We now have the highest rate of solar penetration per capita of any country in the world and we have the second highest rate of wind farm penetration per capita than any country in the world."