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South Australian Energy Experiment It's the anniversary of that state achieving zero emissions for a few hours in being completely blacked out.
South Suatralia has been bouncing around with trailer mounted GTs, and the like.
A new (for Australia), proposal is nearing fruition.
Pumped Seawater Energy Storage passed feasibility stage
Quote:
An Australian-first seawater pumped hydro project proposed for South Australia has passed a major milestone with an initial feasibility report finding no “show stoppers” to the development.
The facility would be located at Cultana in the Spencer Gulf and would be capable of generating 225MW of electricity and 1770MWh of power with eight hours of storage.
The study, conducted by EnergyAustralia with support from Arup and the Melbourne Energy Institute, will allow the project to proceed to the next stage of planning, including engineering design, planning approvals and more detailed financial modeling.
Given Oz's population centres, and availability of coastline, it should be a winner...and not just because it's my employer doing it (We do power walls, redback to augment personal solar)...this is just a rational, chemistry and specialty element free way of storing energy, and restoring inertia to the grid.
Already there are some green rumblings about salt water dams above the water table...
South Australian Energy Experiment It's the anniversary of that state achieving zero emissions for a few hours in being completely blacked out.
South Suatralia has been bouncing around with trailer mounted GTs, and the like.
A new (for Australia), proposal is nearing fruition.
Pumped Seawater Energy Storage passed feasibility stage
Quote:
An Australian-first seawater pumped hydro project proposed for South Australia has passed a major milestone with an initial feasibility report finding no “show stoppers” to the development.
The facility would be located at Cultana in the Spencer Gulf and would be capable of generating 225MW of electricity and 1770MWh of power with eight hours of storage.
The study, conducted by EnergyAustralia with support from Arup and the Melbourne Energy Institute, will allow the project to proceed to the next stage of planning, including engineering design, planning approvals and more detailed financial modeling.
Given Oz's population centres, and availability of coastline, it should be a winner...and not just because it's my employer doing it (We do power walls, redback to augment personal solar)...this is just a rational, chemistry and specialty element free way of storing energy, and restoring inertia to the grid.
Already there are some green rumblings about salt water dams above the water table...