Solar power making use of what coal wrecked | Image : Sungrow
A 40MW floating solar farm, constructed on what would otherwise be a “useless” area due to the impacts of coal mining, has been connected to the mains electricity grid in Huainan, China.
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Natural Gas Blamed For Rising Electricity Prices But Is Not the Main Villain
Is the rising electricity price really all down to gas prices?
Last week I wrote about how electricity prices in Australia are about to shoot so high the International Space Station will have to take evasive action. It appears it’s not enough for the electricity sector to make Australians pay ridiculous prices, they are going to force us to go right to ludicrous. [Read more…]
Solar Owners Secure As Electricity Prices & Solar Feed-In Tariffs Rise
If you own a good-sized solar power system, rising electricity prices are not a worry, in fact some solar owners will see their bills decrease thanks to rising feed-in-tariffs.
Australians don’t pay the highest electricity prices in the world, but we’re working on it. [Read more…]
Federal Budget Confirms Cash For Solar Thermal In Port Augusta
Port Augusta solar thermal power station rendering – SolarReserve
There will be many happy folks in the South Australian city of Port Augusta this morning after last night’s Budget confirmed investment support for a solar thermal power station project.
The ‘SA Energy Crisis’ Is A Myth Peddled By Liars
If you repeat a message long and loud enough many people will accept it as true.
At the start of the month I wrote that South Australia’s grid was in disarray. I warned that more blackouts were inevitable as soon as summer rolled around again or adverse weather struck.
With my warning I wanted to give people a sense of perilous urgency on the need to do something about the dilapidated state of the grid that we depend upon for our jobs, our well being, and civilization itself.
But that was on April Fools Day.
I wasn’t serious. [Read more…]
Redflow Pauses Battery Delivery Due To Electrolyte Concerns
Unwelcome bumps in the road for Australia’s Redflow
Australian energy storage company Redflow has temporarily suspended delivery of new battery stock after detecting the presence of impurities beyond an acceptable level in battery electrolyte.
The Billionaire’s Gambit – Why we should politely decline.
Note from Finn:
This post is Ronald’s considered opinion of Elon Musk’s offer. My personal opinion (with caveats) is that we should accept the offer. I’ll publish a post later today with my reasoning.
Elon Musk has offered to sell South Australia large scale Tesla battery storage of 100 megawatt-hours or more. He says it will cost $250 US dollars at the “pack level” per kilowatt-hour which is around $333 at today’s exchange rate. What’s more, he has promised it will be installed within 100 days of the contract being signed or it’s free.
This may be the best offer that has ever been made for large scale lithium battery storage. But despite the small chance we would get it for free, I think our reply should be a polite, “No thank you.”
South Australia doesn’t need a large amount of battery storage to solve its current electricity supply problems and so there are better alternatives to spend the money on. If in the future it turns out it would be useful we can get it then and it should be even cheaper. [Read more…]
Blackouts In SA While Generators Stand Idle & Politicians Bicker
Joyce titters, Weatherill gets mad, Australia cooks.
Late on Wednesday afternoon, in the middle of a heatwave, electricity was cut off to roughly 90,000 Adelaide properties for around 45 minutes.
Because I have access to a working TV at the moment1 I have seen an implausible number of people shitting bricks over this incident. So many bricks I could use them to build a Great Wall of South Australia. I’m sure it would be effective at keeping foreigners out. After all, who’d want to enter a state surrounded by shitty bricks?
To all the people who are acting like this is some sort of unprecedented event2, I have to ask which bloody country do you live in? Rolling blackouts during heatwaves in Australia are not uncommon and have occurred in every mainland state, including those that are almost entirely powered by coal.
But for those who are complaining for the right reasons, your anger is bloody well justified. [Read more…]
Despite What The Coalition Says Or Doesn’t Say, The “Solar Rebate” Won’t End Soon
Will they scrap the Renewable Energy Target (and by extension the ‘Solar Rebate’) or won’t they?
The Australian newspaper has reported that a couple of Coalition MPs have said Australia should scrap its Renewable Energy Target (RET) if Donald Trump dumps the United States’ commitment to the Paris climate agreement. [Read more…]
2016 The Good News: CO2 Emissions Level Off, Cost Of Solar Falls
It has become fashionable to refer to 2016 as a horrible year. An annus horribilis.
If your personal annus has been horribilis, then you have my condolences. But I think, for most of the world’s population, it has actually been a pretty good year. An annus prettigoodis if you will. [Read more…]
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