‘Catastrophic’ national grid failure coming to Australia says grid expertBy Jo Nova“It’s just a matter of time” says Frontier Economics chief Danny PriceEven though it was a public holiday, there was a raging bonfire in prices in South Australia on the evening of Australia Day. Frontier Economics chief Danny Price, a key architect of energy policy for state and federal governments, warns renewables cannot meet high electricity demand and predicts significant outages and high prices. Year by year the system becomes more fragile and that’s because people are spending less on coal.”Dan Lee at WattClarity tracked the big batteries in South Australia and says they were run almost flat by 8:30pm. Danny Price thought it was “very, very lucky” that so far, heatwaves have basically hit Australia on weekends and holidays. To shore up Australia’s electricity grid, obviously then, we need more public holidays and weekends?