Wild Weather Powers South Australia’s Wind Farms to Milestone
- Two thirds of state’s power needs come from wind over weekend
- More than 40% of power derived from renewable energy in 2015
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Wind farms supplied more than two thirds of South Australia’s electricity at the weekend, with an even bigger contribution on Monday in a sign of the state’s growing embrace of clean energy.
Wind provided 83 percent of the state’s power needs in the 24 hours to 4 p.m. on Monday when turbines helped turn the wild weather whipping the state into renewable energy, Australia’s Clean Energy Council said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday.