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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by onethought on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:22AM (#27605564)
What do you mean Tasmania’s hydro is used as a big battery?

My understanding is it barely provides enough electricity for the state, and the interconnect is used to consume power from Victoria 99% of the time

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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:27AM (#27605636)
https://opennem.org.au/energy/tas1/?range=all&interval=1M

Hover over exports on the right hand side. There are imports from VIC occasionally, but Tas Hydro's plan is to build pumped hydro infra [1], as well as an additional interconnector to South Australia [2] which has robust renewables resources.

[1] https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/battery-of-the-nation/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_Link

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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by onethought on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:30AM (#27605664)
Exports are listed as -10%. Im super confused though.
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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by jbsimpson on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#27605923)
Depending on the season Tasmania exports a lot of electricity to the mainland.
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