Fossil fuel generation pared back to bare bones in South Australia on Friday, with just 80MW of gas output and more than 100 per cent renewables.
Fossil gas pared back to its bare bones in South Australia’s renewables grid
Storage
Investors shift focus to batteries and solar, but go cool on hydrogen
A new investor survey shows interest in low cost battery and solar technologies surged in 2021, but enthusiasm for hydrogen has tempered.
Cheap renewables to keep pushing power bills down, even after Liddell exit
Cheap renewables will continue to push down wholesale power prices, and consumer bills, despite exit of more fossil fuel generators.
Smokestacks tumble from another coal plant, making way for more big batteries
Smokestacks from the shuttered Wallerawang coal fired power station brought down, paving the way for at least one 500MW big battery project.
Big Batteries will render Marinus Link “obsolete”, new analysis suggests
The emergence of new, low cost, big battery storage technologies could render Marinus Link unviable, even before it’s built.
Queensland chips in $10m to boost local vanadium production for flow batteries
Queensland government tips $10m into Australia’s first vanadium processing plant, providing local supply of the metal used in redox flow batteries.
World needs up to 140TWh of long duration energy storage to meet net-zero goals
New report says energy storage of eight hours and more will be crucial to shift to renewables, and we’ll need a lot of it between now and 2040.
Victoria Big Battery now registered as biggest non hydro player in FCAS market
Victoria Big Battery, the largest in Australia, now officially registered for crucial frequency control markets in the country’s main grid.
New ARENA funding round to help plug one of last gaps to 100 pct renewables grid
A new $100 million funding round will support the rollout of grid forming battery inverters that could fill one of the last technical gaps to 100 pct renewables.
Shell snaps up Powershop to accelerate challenge to big energy retail incumbents
Shell boosts presence in Australian energy market in deal to buy the Powershop Australia operations of Meridian Energy.
