22 February 2021
The Queensland state government owned generation company CS Energy has been heavily fined after units at two of its ageing coal generators failed to deliver crucial grid services at various events the last two and a half years, and very nearly caused widespread blackouts in the sunshine state in one of them.
The Australian Energy Regulator says CS Energy has paid $200,000 in penalties for allegedly failing to ensure it could provide frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) that it had offered to the market. It has also repaid $1.3 million it received as payment to provide the services it failed to deliver.
Alintaâs mea culpa wonât end scrutiny after shabby behaviour
February 5, 2021 â 11.00pm
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Almost a year after being caught up in one of the biggest privacy scandals and outed over some sickening treatment of vulnerable customers, three with suicidal thoughts, the Chinese-owned energy giant Alinta is trying to make amends.
Its public mea culpa began with a press release and video of Alinta boss Jeff Dimery apologising for some shabby behaviour to customers experiencing financial hardship.
Alinta CEO Jeff Dimery âdeeply sorryâ to customers.
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âWe got it wrong and Iâm deeply sorry,â Dimery said.
The Standard
22 December 2020
The operators of a South Australian wind farm have been slugged $1 million for failing to properly comply with mandated performance standards in the lead-up to the statewide blackout in September 2016.
In a judgment on Tuesday, the Federal Court also ordered the operators of the Snowtown Wind Farm Stage 2 in the state’s mid-north to engage a compliance expert to review its operations and provide a report on any gaps.
Justice Richard White found the wind farm had contravened the national electricity rules by operating for about three years with inadequate protection settings to cope with or “ride through” disruptions to the power network.
Off-grid dream becomes reality as bushfire threat creates new era for power networks
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Srisa Heffernan could not defend her family property against bushfire last summer, after a power outage left her without water.
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In the days after last summer s bushfires, Srisa Heffernan trampled around her mother s farm to see if she could find anything that hadn t been incinerated in the ferocious blaze.
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