They were only 250 million watts short:
Loy B Yang Victoria. Image, Jo Nova
Rachel Baxendale, The Australian
More than 200,000 Victorian households had their power cut off yesterday in a bid to protect the state's energy system from shutting down, as the Andrews government was forced to admit there was not enough power to keep up with soaring demand in sweltering summer heat.
Homes were blacked out, traffic lights across Melbourne were switched off and businesses were forced to close for up to two hours after the Australian Energy Market Operator enforced rolling power outages to make up a 250 megawatt shortfall in supply.
The State Energy Minister (Lily D'Ambrosio) said there would "absolutely" be no blackouts this morning and the rolling blackouts started 90 minutes later. Welcome to the USSAustralia where we hope to make your 150th Birthday Party 0.001 degrees cooler but we can't predict our electricity grid for the next hour and a half.
Dark ages — get used to it:
Greens leader Richard Di Natale blamed an over-reliance on coal for the heatwave and backed Ms D'Ambrosio's calls for people to stop using their dishwashers and [...]
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