triggered protection systems within several South Australian wind farms, causing them to shut down. In its investigation of the event, AEMO found that these protection systems were set to more sensitive settings than it was aware of.

The loss of power from the wind farms caused further disruptions, including an overloading of the Haywood interconnector between South Australia and Victoria, which,. controversially, was running at full capacity at the time.

When the interconnector then failed, the entire state was plunged into blackout. Criticism has been levelled at AEMO about why it took no precautionary measures in the lead up to the storms, such as reducing the load on the interconnector and giving advanced warning to generators.

The regulator itself said in its report issued last December that AEMO made multiple errorsXavier le Roy will perform his Le Sacre du Printemps solo show this weekend at the National Experimental Theater in Taipei as part of the “Innovation Series.”

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The inspiration for the piece came from Le Roy’s watching the Berlin Philharmonic rehearse Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps in 2003. It raised several questions for him.

Do conductors, through their hand and arm gestures and body movements, lead an orchestra or is it the music leading the conductor? Are there differences in the way music is perceived by a conductor, the musicians and the audience?

Le Roy was also interested in the silence — the moment before a sound, before a conductor’s movement.

He began to analyze a conductor’s movements as if they were choreography and, in 2007,