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by aesthethiccs 3055 days ago
South Australia has one of the highest prices in australia http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/curious-adelaide-the-p...

The opposition federally has been attacking renewable energy in south australia over the failures caused by storms and gas generators. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/josh-frydenberg-jay-we...

so the state put a tender to all battery makers to help the state start with startup times to get the gas generators online and help with the extreme prices in high demand times http://theconversation.com/a-month-in-teslas-sa-battery-is-s...

the battery project has been very successful, and now fuelled with revenge and fear of losing state power the state leader is pushing even harder for battery and solar tech in residential areas to stop the cost growth, this will also help alot of renters, and he is directing this as mistrust from the incompetent federal leadership which is primarily funded by the coal industry. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/01/coal-...

South Australia mostly dislikes federal politicians considering they constantly ignore the state and then with AEMO and energy markets just basically cut power to the state and charge them through the nose because they aren't the useful state.