{"id":27601,"date":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/government-reveals-plan-for-sa-s-610-million-generators\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","slug":"government-reveals-plan-for-sa-s-610-million-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/government-reveals-plan-for-sa-s-610-million-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Reveals Plan For SA\u2019s $610 Million Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Emergency diesel generators purchased by the previous Labor government will be leased to the private sector, and there is already strong interest from \u201cseveral companies\u201d, says the energy minister.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want them sitting idle,\u201d Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan told FIVEAA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$610 million dollars for diesel generators that have never ever been used. That is more money than was spent to build the Adelaide Oval and these generators have never been used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to actually get them into operation in the market so that they can have additional supply in the market, and that will push prices down, as well as still being available for emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said he had already received \u201cquite a lot\u201d of interest from businesses enquiring about the generators.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOver the last six months we\u2019ve had a lot of approaches, to be quite honest, from organisations keen to know what our intentions were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t tell them what our intentions were because we needed to wait until we got this report and some other information. But we\u2019ve had several approaches from companies expressing their interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep in mind that there nine of these generators in two different locations, so it\u2019s not automatically as simple as they all get leased out to one company. There\u2019s a range of different ways this could land but we\u2019ve had no shortage of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/davidandwill-17october2018\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency diesel generators purchased by the previous Labor government will be leased to the private sector, and there is already strong interest from \u201cseveral companies\u201d, says the energy minister. \u201cWe don\u2019t want them sitting idle,\u201d Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201c$610 million dollars for diesel generators that have never ever been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-27601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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