Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time

Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by cbmuser on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:23AM (#24763119)

The specific carbon emission data from electricitymap.org reject the claim from the headline:

> https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/AUS-SA

They’re currently at 369 g CO2 per kWh, that’s not clean by any means.

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by wp381640 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:45AM (#24763233)

That's coming from the gas plants in SA that are required to provide network inertia

They're currently working on replacing that with battery

(this is explained in the article)

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by 0xy on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:25AM (#24764908)

That's false, they're not at all working on replacing gas. In fact, they're quadrupling down on gas (because it's basically a necessity for baseload capacity). [1] [2]

[1] https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/pitt/media-re...

[2] https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/story/6607101/650m-g...

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by belorn on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:12AM (#24763388)

Is there a date when the existing gas plants will be decommissioned and demolished?

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by edhelas on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#24763523)

Good question, all the emitted CO² stays for centuries in the atmosphere. What is happening if in the end they can't replace all those "dirty" backups ?

This whole plan will basically work only if this big "if" is solved and deployed.

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by 1234fdsazxcv on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:43AM (#24763228)

Reading the article may help. The article states that it was a temporary event.

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Re:Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for fir... by omegabravo on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:45AM (#24763234)

That's ~30hrs after the point in time highlighted by the article.

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