BBC (September 29)
2016/ 10/ 01 by jd in Global News
All of South Australia blacked out when a vicious storm struck, toppling approximately 20 transmission towers and leveling nearly 80,000 lightning strikes, some of these damaged power plants and facilities. The unprecedented weather “has very quickly turned into an Australian political storm, with the state’s dependency on renewable energy now being debated with the full force and bluster of a tornado.”
Tags: Black out, Damage, Dependency, Lightning, Political storm, Power plants, Renewable energy, South Australia, Storm, Transmission towers, Weather