Editing Adelaide (section)

=== Energy ===
Adelaide's energy requirements were originally met by the [[Adelaide Electric Supply Company]], which was nationalised by the [[Thomas Playford IV|Playford]] government in 1946,<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=norrie-sir-charles-willoughby-moke-11254 |title=
Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie (1893–1977) |year=2000 |volume=15 |first=P.A. |last= Howell |access-date=16 June 2012 |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/norrie-sir-charles-willoughby-moke-11254 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620195359/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/norrie-sir-charles-willoughby-moke-11254 |archive-date=20 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> becoming the [[Electricity Trust of South Australia]] (ETSA). Despite significant public opposition and the Labor party's anti-privatisation stance which left the Liberal party one vote short of the numbers needed to pass the legislation, ETSA was privatised by the [[John Olsen|Olsen]] Government in 1999 by way of a 200-year lease for the distribution network (ETSA&nbsp;Utilities, later renamed [[SA Power Networks]]) and the outright purchase of ETSA Power{{Clarify|date=July 2019}} by the [[Cheung Kong Holdings]] for $3.5&nbsp;billion (11 times ETSA's annual earnings) after Labor MP [[Trevor Crothers]] resigned from the party and voted with the government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s27853.htm |title=''7:30 Report'' – 03/06/1999: Shock Labor "betrayal" allows SA Govt to effectively privatise power utility |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=20 September 2017 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034139/http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s27853.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-58398249] {{dead link|date=July 2022}}</ref>

The electricity retail market was opened to competition in 2003 and although competition was expected to result in lower retail costs, prices increased by 23.7% in the market's first year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110318191.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501052319/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110318191.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 May 2013 |title=Power crisis 'as bad as California'. }}</ref> In 2004, the privatisation was deemed to be a failure with consumers paying 60% more for their power and with the state government estimated to lose $3&nbsp;billion in power generation net income in the first ten years of privatisation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115625174.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502161236/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115625174.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 May 2013 |title=Privatisation 'will cost state billions'. }}</ref> In 2012, the industry came under scrutiny for allegedly reducing supply by shutting down generators during periods of peak demand to force prices up. Increased media attention also revealed that in 2009 the state government had approved a 46% increase in retail prices to cover expected increases in the costs of generation while generation costs had in fact fallen 35% by 2012.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} South Australia has the highest retail price for electricity in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/factcheck-does-south-australia-have-the-highest-energy-prices-in-the-nation-and-the-least-reliable-grid-92928 |title=FactCheck: does South Australia have the 'highest energy prices' in the nation and 'the least reliable grid'? |work=The Conversation |author1=Dylan McConnell |author2=David Blowers |date=13 March 2018 |access-date=9 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709153620/https://theconversation.com/factcheck-does-south-australia-have-the-highest-energy-prices-in-the-nation-and-the-least-reliable-grid-92928 |archive-date=9 July 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Privatisation led to competition from a variety of companies who now separately provide for the generation, transmission, distribution and retail sales of gas and electricity. Electricity generation comes from a range of technologies and operators. [[ElectraNet]] operates the high-voltage electricity transmission network. [[SA Power Networks]] distributes electricity to end users. The largest electricity and gas retailing companies are also the largest generating companies.

The largest fossil fuel power stations are the [[Torrens Island Power Station]] gas-fired plant operated by [[AGL Energy]] and the [[Pelican Point Power Station]] operated by [[Engie]]. South Australia also has wind and solar power and connections to the national grid. [[Natural gas|Gas]] is supplied from the [[Moomba, South Australia|Moomba]] Gas Processing Plant in the [[Cooper Basin]] via the [[Moomba Adelaide Pipeline System]]<ref name="EnergySA2">{{cite web|title=Supply Security |work=Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure |url=http://www.energy.sa.gov.au/pages/conventional/planning/supply/security.htm:sectID=10&tempID=1 |access-date=5 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050624044821/http://www.energy.sa.gov.au/pages/conventional/planning/supply/security.htm%3AsectID%3D10%26tempID%3D1 |archive-date=24 June 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[SEAGas pipeline]] from [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]].

In 2011, South Australia generated 18% of its electricity from [[wind power]], and had 51% of the installed capacity of wind generators in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Water,+energy+and+environment/Energy/Renewable+energy/Wind+energy/Wind+energy+in+South+Australia |title=Wind Energy in South Australia |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=16 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018043135/http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Water%2C%2Benergy%2Band%2Benvironment/Energy/Renewable%2Benergy/Wind%2Benergy/Wind%2Benergy%2Bin%2BSouth%2BAustralia |archive-date=18 October 2012 }}</ref>

Due to almost universal blackouts within the city during September 2016,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/sa-power-outage-explainer/7886090 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929142924/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/sa-power-outage-explainer/7886090|archive-date=29 September 2016 |title=SA power outage: How did it happen?. |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=28 September 2016}}</ref> the state worked with [[Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]] to produce the world's largest electricity battery at [[Hornsdale Wind Farm|Hornsdale Power Reserve]] which has increased that state's electrical security to the extent in which large blackouts are no longer an event.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-27/tesla-battery-cost-revealed-two-years-after-blackout/10310680 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930201754/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-27/tesla-battery-cost-revealed-two-years-after-blackout/10310680|archive-date=30 September 2018 |title=Tesla battery cost revealed two years after SA blackout. |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=27 September 2018}}</ref>