Comments for RenewEconomy https://reneweconomy.com.au/ News and analysis for the clean energy economy Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by Glenn https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164360 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:05:29 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164360 AEMO/CSIRO Generating Cost draft report from Dec19
Lots of pictures FTW !!

It says Renewables+6h PHES is cheaper than Renewables+2h Battery, but batteries expected to catch up.

www aemo com au/-/media/Files/Electricity/NEM/Planning_and_Forecasting/Inputs-Assumptions-Methodologies/2019/CSIRO-GenCost2019-20_DraftforReview.pdf

]]> Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by neroden https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164359 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:36:35 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164359 You guys picked a hell of a time to take a vacation. The backlog of news related to the global-warming-induced fires, Adani, AEMO/AEMC, and so on is massive. Hope you catch up. You have your work cut out for you.

In future, I would suggest either (a) not taking 3 week breaks or (b) not doing it at such a news-heavy time.

]]> Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by Glenn https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164361 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:44:57 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164361 Some observations for the year from opennem;
SA exported more than they imported, first time since 2007/08 when it was about equal, however it was partly due to lower imports of interstate electricity which is cheaper than their Gas generation, which is getting more expensive.

VIC is over 20% renewable, 10% of that (5.1TWh) was from Wind, which is catching up to SA’s 5.7TWh (steady over 2 years)
Solar in Queensland is cheapest generating source in Australia, $56/MWh
Solar is cheaper than Wind across the whole grid for the first time since start of 2017 (record only kept from 1 quarter before that, first of which had anomalous values)
Renewables increased by 10% compared by previous year, now at 22.6%

]]> Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by Chris Drongers https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164362 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:10:51 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164362 Welcome back Reneweconomy. We missed you.

]]> Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by Mr T https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164363 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:47:30 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164363 Finally, a new article, was starting to think RE had been sucked into a black hole or something, none of the other news sites I visit disappear for 3 weeks over xmas…

]]> Comment on Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance by Chris Jones https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-and-batteries-to-slash-emissions-and-costs-in-w-a-s-esperance-54654/#comment-164364 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:30:21 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?p=139463#comment-164364 How good would it be to be able to drive an EV all the way there? https://chuffed.org/project/evhwy

]]> Comment on Nem Watch by Ian Mclaughlin https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/#comment-164365 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:28:03 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?page_id=51570#comment-164365 Wouldn’t it be great if people posting on this site knew the difference between “Weather” and “Climate” then we wouldn’t have to see the drivel posted here!!

]]> Comment on Nem Watch by Phil Private https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/#comment-164373 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:26:41 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?page_id=51570#comment-164373 cast
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]]> Comment on Nem Watch by Thommo https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/#comment-164375 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 06:37:35 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?page_id=51570#comment-164375 In reply to Phil Private.

In the SE of SA we didn’t have a spring, it went straight from a very cold winter to summer, where until a few days ago we’d only had a couple of days over 30. Shows just how the temperature varies around our great land. Today it went from 40 early in the day to 23 now. 5.05pm.

]]> Comment on Nem Watch by Thommo https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/#comment-164380 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 06:29:55 +0000 https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/?page_id=51570#comment-164380 I have been in Adelaide for the last few days where until today there was virtually no wind. I didn’t have access to the Data Dashboard so couldn’t see what was happening there. But I guess the 8 or 10 hours of sunlight helped during the day. It was bloody hot and I was hoping for a breeze, too. As for breaking records I kept hearing that the record set in 1898 may have been broken. That means it took 117 years for that record to be broken, if it has. Bloody stupid media only want to grandstand to sell air time and papers.

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