As Australia’s electricity grids strain to cope with demand and government efforts to foist yet more renewable energy on them, consumers can at least be thankful that down under weather patterns are different from those of Europe where the wind does not blow for days.
In mid-June, Bloomberg reported that virtually no power had been generated by the nation’s wind farms for about nine days, with calm conditions expected for another two weeks.
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