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Why battery storage in Australia is unable to back up wind and solar
Most people would assume that if a battery storage installation – or even a pumped hydro facility – is located next to a big wind or solar farm, then the storage is being used to ‘back-up’ the wind and solar, smooth its output and deliver a ‘firm’ resource to the grid.
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Battle to save Paterson Hill remembered
Last Tuesday a gathering near the Byron Bay Water Tower celebrated the Paterson Hill heathland victories in 1997 and 2003, which saw the community unite to fight inappropriate development.
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 Comment, Articles & Columns -
IPCC says coal must go in race to limit global warming
As Australia’s Prime Minister plays with lumps of coal and prays for rain, a major new scientific report has called for the urgent, world-wide phase-out of fossil fuels, as the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C drifts rapidly and dangerously out of reach.
October 9, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 4 Comment, Articles & Columns -
Hail the progressive parrot!
Neoliberalism is the dead parrot of our times. It’s been knocked off its perch by a combination of greed, ineptitude and public disquiet over inequality. It was meant to deliver greater prosperity for all but ended up deepening social and economic divisions.
September 18, 2018 | The Echo | 0 Comment, Articles & Columns
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Why battery storage in Australia is unable to back up wind and solar
Most people would assume that if a battery storage installation – or even a pumped hydro facility – is located next to a big wind or solar farm, then the storage is being used to ‘back-up’ the wind and solar, smooth its output and deliver a ‘firm’ resource to the grid.
2 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Battle to save Paterson Hill remembered
Last Tuesday a gathering near the Byron Bay Water Tower celebrated the Paterson Hill heathland victories in 1997 and 2003, which saw the community unite to fight inappropriate development.
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
IPCC says coal must go in race to limit global warming
As Australia’s Prime Minister plays with lumps of coal and prays for rain, a major new scientific report has called for the urgent, world-wide phase-out of fossil fuels, as the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C drifts rapidly and dangerously out of reach.
October 9, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Hail the progressive parrot!
Neoliberalism is the dead parrot of our times. It’s been knocked off its perch by a combination of greed, ineptitude and public disquiet over inequality. It was meant to deliver greater prosperity for all but ended up deepening social and economic divisions.
September 18, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
A peek at Rupert Murdoch’s revised walking dead cabinet
Good riddance Turnbull, a PM of massive wealth and ego who left office without much record of accomplishment. Remember when the Libs scoffed as Labor tore itself apart?
August 29, 2018 | Hans Lovejoy | 14 -
What will ScoMo’s energy policy look like?
It says something about the state of Australia’s politics that the new prime minister, the man who brandished a lump of coal in parliament, is considered a moderate, at least in comparison to the forces he beat to the job.
August 28, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
How the right-wing media have given a megaphone to reactionary forces in the Liberal Party
The polarisation that is devouring Australia’s politics is reflected in the increasingly stark polarisation of the country’s professional mass media, writes Denis Muller of Melbourne University.
August 24, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 5 -
Renewables cheaper than coal, says Gupta: ‘it’s obvious’
Even UK steel billionaires get the blues. For more than a year now, Sanjeev Gupta has been letting his actions – and investments – do the talking on renewables in Australia.
July 24, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Trial success boosts Tesla’s case for 250MW ‘virtual’ SA power plant
The prospects for Tesla’s proposed 250MW ‘virtual power plant’ in South Australia look significantly brighter after the success of its first trial and an enthusiastic response from the South Australia government.
July 17, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Blood-sucking freaks
There’s an old saying in the Northern Rivers: If you’re out in the bush and you find yourself scratching the same place twice, you’ve probably got a tick.
July 10, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Should NSW coal be replaced by SA renewables?
At first blush it might sound like a no-brainer but when energy distribution companies are involved, nothing is quite what it seems, argues Giles Parkinson.
July 3, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Solar pushes mid-day electricity prices in QLD below zero
The roll-out of large-scale solar power in Queensland – and the continuing rapid uptake of rooftop solar by homes and businesses – is starting to have an impact on electricity prices in the state, even sending them into negative territory in the middle of the day.
June 26, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Australia starts slow on EVs but could overtake global market
Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts Australia’s slow start to the uptake of electric vehicles will quickly morph into a ‘fast finish’ – particularly after the key financial tipping point is reached in 2025.
June 19, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
EFIC fail: Adani support creates legal & political risks
A new report by Environmental Justice Australia finds that if Australia’s export credit agency, EFIC, funds Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine, it would expose its directors to significant legal and political risk.
June 12, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Record year for solar and renewables but not fast enough
A record amount of solar capacity and renewable power was installed across the world in 2017 – as the cost of both wind and solar became competitive with fossil fuels – but it still is not enough, a major new report has found.
June 5, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
How EVs will fast-track Australia’s shift to 100% renewables
According to Tritium, an Australian company specialising in fast-chargers, if all Australian cars were electric vehicles their batteries combined would provide some 500 gigawatt hours of stored electricity.
May 29, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Missiles, Monash and War No More!
Comment: Everyone who went to war should be acknowledged, and so should people who had the courage to not go on principle, and those who fought against American wars on poor nations seeking independence.
April 25, 2018 | The Echo | 7 -
Fairly random notes from Byron Shire and beyond
A Queensland mycologist (studier of fungus), Dr Sandra Tuszynska, believes mushroom vomit could one day replace plastics, bricks and certain metals.
March 8, 2018 | The Echo | 1 -
Councillor speaks of the ‘declining standards in local governance’
By Cr Basil Cameron. Poorly considered comments from the departing general manager (GM) in a recent report to Council have rightly stirred up much discussion in our little democracy.
February 22, 2018 | The Echo | 8 -
Voters tell Barnaby Joyce to quit as leader: Newspoll
Some 65 per cent of voters say Barnaby Joyce should quit as Nationals leader, in a Newspoll that shows the scandal hitting the government and Malcolm Turnbull, writes Michelle Grattan
February 19, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Why aren’t we doing more about king tides and rising sea levels?
Recent king tides have again caused significant damage to coastal assets in Australia and New Zealand. It is increasingly recognised worldwide that, despite many coastal adaptation plans being developed, the implementation of these plans is lagging.
February 12, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Plans to convert Holden plant to solar and produce electric vehicles
UK-based billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is looking to buy equipment from and use part of the old Holden factory in South Australia to create an electric vehicle production line in what would be a remarkable transformation of Australia’s car industry and... Read More →
January 23, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
I thought being Chinese was bad until I became vegan
I’m an old, fat, white chick so people get quite a shock when they have been vilifying the progeny of my ancestors and I happen to mention I am one of them – The Chinese that is.
December 30, 2017 | Eve Jeffery | 1 -
Why many gay men don’t give a f***k about marriage
The road to marriage equality in Australia has been a long, hard haul. And it hasn’t been made any easier by the fact that many gay men cheering loudly for the YES camp in the streets and on social media are ambivalent, at best, behind closed doors.
December 28, 2017 | Chris Dobney | 6 -
Dancing Adani into oblivion
Sunday’s Channon Market witnessed a pop up action to protest the Adani coal complex at Abbott’s Point in Queensland and in solidarity with all those on the frontline of the fight against Adani’s project.
December 13, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0
