Goodbye Northern lights, hello sunlight?
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
At 9.40 am local time on Monday May 9th the turbines at Alinta’s 520 megawatt Northern Power Station at Port Augusta disconnected from the grid for the last time.
And with it ended more than 50 years of coal-fired power generation in South Australia.
But Northern’s shutdown does not mean that South Australian power supply is coal-free,...