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South Australia's Liberal government has celebrated the fifth anniversary of the controversial state-wide blackout by claiming that the state is now leading the country - both in terms of renewables, but also in the lack of any supply shortfalls.

"Five years ago South Australia was plunged into a statewide blackout that put lives at risk, inflicted immense damaged our economy and made us the laughing stock of the nation," state energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan said in a statement.

"Today South Australia has the best performing electricity grid in the nation as the Marshall government's energy policies have strengthened what was a fragile, unstable and highly vulnerable electricity network."

The state-wide blackout, triggered by massive storms that tore down multiple transmission towers and three transmission links, quickly became a political football and an ideological battleground between parties pro-renewables, and those against.

It amplified the "when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine" meme, but far from putting a stop to renewables, it ensured that more work was done to underpin the massive rollout of large scale wind and solar that followed.

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