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Two things are going to happen in Australia's main grid in the next few years

- Renewables are going to overtake coal
- Battery discharge is going to overtake gas

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Johnno

Coal is still generating 14 times more electricity than Gas despite the huge volumes of gas we are exporting. It should be obvious to government regulators that there is no need for any new gas and coal licenses to be issued - no matter to whom and no matter where. Coal and gas resources will very soon become stranded assetts. Let's hope our Superannutaion funds get out of them sooner rather than later.

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Jamey Sharp

I wanted to check the source for this chart before boosting, since the modern internet is a trash fire, and I'm delighted that I did because now I have learned of the existence of the Open Electricity project (formerly OpenNEM). This chart corresponds pretty directly to this view, in case anybody wants to dig into the data further: explore.openelectricity.org.au…

Open Electricity: An Open Platform for National Electricity Market Data

An Open Platform for National Electricity Market Data
explore.openelectricity.org.au

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kkarhan

pretty shure #Australia due tovit's low population density will literally be able to do Solarthermal Power Generation as main source and go 100% renewable way before 2050.

I mean, basically almost all major cities are near coasts, so there's no reason beyond NIMBYs to not do Wind Power as well…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

List of solar thermal power stations - Wikipedia

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Szymon Bęczkowski

Just a few years ago we needed to provide auxiliary services to make batteries economically feasible. Now they are a no brainer.

With the prices declining and sodium electrolyte just behind the corner I think we will be looking at extreme speedup of deployment. Not linear, like this projections show but logarithmic. Battery capacity abundance will also accelerate PV and wind deployment. Fastest way for energy capacity: build a PV farm, add batteries and supplement with grid, if needed.

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