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Re:A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, and wit... by wiz21c on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:38PM (#32582924)
120GWh of storage is needed (5hours). A MegaPack of Tesla has 3 MWh capacity, so we'd need the equivalent of 40000 of them... Ouch!
Re:A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, and wit... by Koemul on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:19AM (#32589807)
According to [1], there were about 20 million cars registered in Australia in 2021. If we turn them all electric, with an average battery size of 50KW/h, we'll get about 1TW/h of storage that can be charged during periods of overproduction and feed part of their capacity back to the grid when needed.

Electric car sales are currently low in Australia, with ~2% of new cars sold in 2021. But they are growing exponentially: ~2000 electric vehicles were sold in 2018, ~7000 in 2019/2020 and ~20'000 in 2021. [2][3]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/632547/australia-registe... [2] https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/wp-content/uploads/202... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/31/new-elec...