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Thundering about windfarms ignores a complex set of factors that still includes several unknowns

We had the terrible storm that triggered a statewide blackout in South Australia last week – and, ever since, we’ve had the unfulfilling storm of spin about what caused the lights to go off.

The release on Wednesday of a preliminary report by the Australian Energy Market Operator into the sequence of events that caused the power outages has given us new and important, albeit incomplete, information about a serious episode in Australia’s energy market.

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Source: Guardian Environment