South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes going negative
edit maybe the state is South Australia, or at least that is what the comments said but idk
yep batteries are definitely all the rage, especially with solar farms getting fuck all out of their stuff these last few years as the daytime price keeps going negative
The first Tailem Bend solar farm was the second big solar project in South Australia, after the 220 MW Bungala solar farms near Port Augusta. Those facilities are also heavily curtailed, and Bungala’s joint owners Potentia Energy are considering a big battery at that site too.
Basically free power most of the time and very expensive sometimes seems like a slam dunk for deploying battery storage to be honest
Haven’t you read the studies about how batteries kill whales though?
Natural gas is far safer for nature and I arrived at this position entirely organically.
yep batteries are definitely all the rage, especially with solar farms getting fuck all out of their stuff these last few years as the daytime price keeps going negative
https://reneweconomy.com.au/construction-starts-on-new-south-australian-big-battery-choosing-a-merchant-route-to-market/
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/capacity/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed