In fact if Pt Augusta was still on line the eyre peninsula would be supplied today.
Did you ever stop to think that the dirty Pt Augusta power station and thousands of others like it may be a contributing factor to these weather events.
The problem of fluctuating power from renewables will be solved. The renewable industry is still in its infancy.
All those naysayers should hark back to early electricity production where the usual handbrakes predicted it would never be much use because the then DC current was only good for a couple of miles. .Then along came Nikola Tesla.
Where would we be today if the Luddites against electricity back then had not been ignored?