'We must keep the lights on': how a cyclone was used to attack renewables
- Written by David Holmes, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University

The mid-latitude cyclone with no name that hit South Australia last week, spawning two tornadoes and 80,000 electricity strikes, destroyed 22 massive transmission towers carrying electricity across the state.
The consequences of the superstorm could have been dire – both from the direct effects of the wind and floods but also...