{"id":29687,"date":"2018-01-13T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29687"},"modified":"2018-01-13T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T19:37:43","slug":"blowout-week-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29687","title":{"rendered":"Blowout Week 211"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/blowout-week-211\/\">Blowout Week 211<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/BN-UE081_38wMK_M_20170707030316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>This week we return to the Big South Australian Battery (BSAB), the alleged success of which \u2013 the \u201cTesla effect\u201d \u2013 is spawning a raft of similar projects elsewhere in the country. Coming after we have Frydenberg on Snowy River; the usual dose of OPEC; Russia sells gas to the US; less gas to come from Groningen; California to close Diablo Canyon; coal in Finland, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan, hydro in Colombia; Germany\u2019s <em>Energiewende<\/em>problems; renewables in Denmark and Colorado; less gas capacity planned for UK; Ineos to challenge Scotland\u2019s fracking ban; a contingency plan needed for cold winter nights when the wind doesn\u2019t blow; Trump reconsiders Paris and how climate change makes turtles female.<\/p>\n<p><b>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/11\/big-new-renewable-projects-planned-across-australia-as-tesla-effect-hits\">Big new renewable projects planned across Australia as \u201cTesla effect\u201d hits <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Australia\u2019s renewable energy sector responds to the success of South Australia\u2019s Tesla lithium ion battery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>South Australia will build the world\u2019s largest solar thermal plant, and a Queensland wind farm may be the site of a new record-breaking battery. The Aurora solar plant in Port Augusta, SA, will begin construction this year, and is slated to provide 100% of the state government\u2019s electricity needs by 2020, the state\u2019s acting energy minister, Chris Picton, announced on Wednesday. In Queensland, French utility Neoen \u2013 which partnered with Tesla in SA to create the world\u2019s largest battery \u2013 may trump its own creation by building an even larger storage system at the Kaban Green Power Hub, 80km from Cairns. In December the (South Australia) state government hailed the battery\u2019s effectiveness in dealing with power outages, and Neoen and Tesla have recently announced plans for a second collaboration to build a 20MW battery in Victoria. In order for the proposed Queensland battery to be the world\u2019s largest, it would have to beat a soon-to-be-completed battery in South Korea, from Hyundai Electric &amp; Energy Systems Co, which at 150MW would take the crown from South Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blowout Week 211 This week we return to the Big South Australian Battery (BSAB), the alleged success of which \u2013 the \u201cTesla effect\u201d \u2013 is spawning a raft of similar projects elsewhere in the country. Coming after we have Frydenberg on Snowy River; the usual dose of OPEC; Russia sells gas to the US; less [&hellip;]<\/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":[11260,11990],"class_list":["post-29687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy-matters","tag-roger-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29687","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=29687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29688,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29687\/revisions\/29688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}