Pumped Hydro

Storage

Grid scale batteries achieve record net revenues in September quarter
Record revenues for Australia’s growing fleet of grid-scale batteries, driven by expanding FCAS markets, increased arbitrage and negative prices.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 13, 2019

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Kidston pumped hydro faces delay as EnergyAustralia pulls back from off-take deal
Kidston pumped hydro project faces delay after EnergyAustralia backs away from off-take deal, putting separate loan and share agreements at risk.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 1, 2019

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CleanCo marks first day by switching on pumped hydro to meet solar duck curve
CleanCo marks first day in energy market by switching on Wivenhoe pumped hydro station as solar duck curve takes shape.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 31, 2019

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Hydro Tasmania pushes “battery of the nation” plan, will unlock wind and solar
Hydro Tasmania pushes “battery of nation” plan with new paper suggesting it could replace Yallourn and unlock thousands of megawatts of wind and solar projects.
Michael Mazengarb

Oct 31, 2019

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Snowy 2.0 needed today, says CEO in tense Senate estimates hearing
Snowy management defends Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, telling an estimates hearing the economics stack up and rejecting claims the project would affect the national park.
Michael Mazengarb

Oct 21, 2019

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Coal

Taylor’s underwriting scheme could choose first six projects ‘by Christmas’
Angus Taylor expects up to six new projects will be approved under the underwriting scheme before the end of the year, and is likely to favour fossil fuels.
Michael Mazengarb

Oct 18, 2019

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National Parks Association calls on governments to scrap Snowy 2.0
National Parks Association says Snowy 2.0 does not stack up, describing it as “environmental vandalism and economic folly”.
Michael Mazengarb

Oct 15, 2019

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Solar reaches 80 per cent share of demand in South Australia on Saturday
Renewable state of South Australia sets a new milestone with solar accounting for up to 80 per cent of demand on Saturday.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 13, 2019

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Coal

How much new dispatchable generation does Australia need?
Australia is facing numerous coal plant closures but no one really knows how much new dispatchable generation is needed to replace it.
David Leitch

Oct 11, 2019

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Coal

Fourteen new big battery storage projects proposed for NSW
NSW storage proposals include 14 different big battery projects, a handful of virtual power plants, and a coal mine which wants to install pumped hydro.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 2, 2019

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NSW Government

Snowy 2.0 seeks approval as landfill proposal labelled “environmental vandalism”
National Parks association describes Snowy plans to dump nine million cubic metres of dirt as “environmental vandalism.”
Michael Mazengarb

Sep 30, 2019

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CleanTech Bites

Why Australia’s biggest battery said no to an offer too good to refuse
Queensland’s negative prices, and the failure to switch on the country’s biggest “battery”, brings back memories of a very fat man in a restaurant in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 10, 2019

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