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Re:BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dum... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:39AM (#36943243)
They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, roughly equal to total continent fossil generation (which will add to current renewables capacity).

https://www.energymagazine.com.au/aemo-quarterly-energy-repo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla... | https://archive.is/egMXl

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Re:BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dum... by logifail on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:23PM (#36946732)
> They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, ~7GW greater than entire continent coal generation (which will add to current renewables capacity) [1] [2]. Batteries are scaling up to consume grid services revenue and drive out thermal generation [3].

Yet they are still digging coal out of the ground - for export. Australia exported USD 75 billion worth of coal in 2022.

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