And down under, milestones continue to fall in Australia’s rapidly evolving electricity grid, with rooftop solar meeting all of South Australia’s native or underlying demand in the early afternoon on Saturday.
For now, it keeps two gas units running at low capacity to maintain grid security, but that need will be redundant once the new link to NSW is completed in a few years time.
#wind #solar #batteries #MastodonEnergy #ClimateProgress https://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-meets-all-of-south-australia-demand-in-major-new-milestone/
You may have caught wind about head winds in the U.S. offshore wind development arena this week.
Anyways, a VP at Ørsted wrote this:
"Offshore wind is said to be in the middle of a perfect storm for exactly the reasons that all hit our US projects: supply chain delays, increasing interest rates and tax regimes that continue to support fossil fuel and are at best neutral to, but often detrimental to, the development, construction and operation of renewable energy." #MastodonEnergy
In the models with only short-duration lithium-ion batteries available, over 60 GW of battery capacity is built by 2040 to shift renewable generation and meet peak demand. However, this capacity only provides 538 GWh of energy storage.
Whereas when long-duration and multi-day storage are available, total storage capacity needs drop to around 40 GW. But critically, total energy storage capacity grows nearly 10x to over 5,000 GWh. #LDES #Batteries #MastodonEnergy
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/08/21/multi-day-energy-storage-increases-grid-capacity-by-factor-of-ten/
Form Energy released a white paper that provides further evidence that multi-day energy storage, like its iron-air technology, can substantially reduce the costs for New York to achieve its ambitious decarbonization targets.
The 35-MW geothermal power plant of Sosian Energy in the Menengai geothermal field in Kenya has started supplying electricity to the national grid. Menengai hopes to develop a combined capacity of 105 MW.
Electricity from it is being sold at a rate 6.9 US cents per kWh. This is a competitive price and is expected to help displace expensive power generating capacity mostly from thermal plants.
#geothermal #CleanEnergy #MastodonEnergy https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/35-mw-menengai-geothermal-power-plant-kenya-starts-grid-supply/
The German government is looking at further developing deep geothermal energy to create a nationwide climate-neutral heat supply by 2045. According to studies, deep geothermal energy could generate around 300 terawatt hours of heat annually from an installed capacity of 70 GW -- more than half the future heat demand of all buildings.
Geothermal and ground coupled heat pumps use in the U.S.is growing too.
#geothermal #HeatPumps #MastodonEnergy
@matthewtoad43 @ShredderFeeder @Pomegracias @LightFIAR @WizardBear @Mary625 @ArenaCops @Beachbum @tdwllms1 @curtisysmith
y'all know that most production is done on private lands don't you?
Why won't y'all accept that the fossil fuel industry wants for you to be opposed to Biden?
#climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #USPolitics
#MastodonEnergy
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