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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by WizardAustralis on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:06AM (#23581849)
The Tesla battery only powers about 30k homes for about and hour and a half. Dont get me wrong, it is an amazing piece of tech for stabalising the grid and reducing the dependence on the gas peaker plants but it is a very long way from mass storage for want is a fairly small Aussie state. SA still regularly pulls a lot of power from the Victoria grid which is still dependent a lot on dirty brown coal.

Hopefully it is just the first steps towards a clean grid and not an example of a Concorde like moon shot failure.

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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by ouchjars on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:26AM (#23582187)
The battery plant capacity is growing in hand with decentralised battery storage, an interconnector to New South Wales which is building hydro storage capacity, and demand management. Apparently generation and transmission costs are falling nationwide too, but not to the extent that my bills are going down.
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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by WizardAustralis on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:07PM (#23588820)
That's good to see, it has been about a year or so since I last checked in any detail. That plus from what I have heard even conservative numbers put Snow hydro 2 as being a big win in terms of storage capacity.
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