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Blowout Week 204<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"In this week\u2019s Blowout we continue our recent focus on energy storage, featuring the just-published ACOLA study which claims that Australia can get 75% of its electricity from intermittent renewables with 105 gigawatt-hours of long-term storage, enough to cover demand for all of four hours. We follow with Russia jumping into bed with OPEC; the race for light crude; France considers spinning off EDF; the truth about Chernobyl; Germany\u2019s coalition crisis; Tesla meets its battery deadline; interconnectors in Europe; subsidies in UK; Hinkley under fire again; Brexit and Euratom; EVs as virtual power stations: a Swedish coal plant that burns old clothes; the cooling properties of deep fat fryers and how climate change makes lizards less intelligent.<\/p>\n

Australian Council of Learned Academies: The Role of Energy Storage in Australia\u2019s Future Energy Supply Mix <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

A National Electricity Market (NEM) model was used to assess the requirements of energy storage out to 2030. The model was based on hourly supply and demand data for a year where there was the longest period of low availability of variable renewable resources (worst case scenario for variable renewable supply).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three scenarios underpinned the modelling in this report: (1) \u2018LOW RE\u2019 (where variable renewables account for approximately 35 per cent generation); (2) \u2018MID RE\u2019 (approximately 50 per cent generation); and (3) \u2018HIGH RE\u2019 (approximately 75 per cent generation). Under the three scenarios, storage capacity requirements for energy security and reliability are shown in Figure 1. Energy storage is both a technically feasible and an economically viable approach to responding to Australia\u2019s energy security and reliability needs to 2030, even with a high renewables generation scenario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(\u201cSystem reliability\u201d is the ability to meet electrical energy demand (GWh) at all times of the day, the year, and in future.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Blowout Week 204 In this week\u2019s Blowout we continue our recent focus on energy storage, featuring the just-published ACOLA study which claims that Australia can get 75% of its electricity from intermittent renewables with 105 gigawatt-hours of long-term storage, enough to cover demand for all of four hours. We follow with Russia jumping into bed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17168,41,17170,11260,269,17169,17167],"class_list":["post-28293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-acola","tag-australia","tag-australian-council-of-learned-academies","tag-energy-matters","tag-energy-storage","tag-intermittent-renewable-energy","tag-rogers-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28294,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions\/28294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}