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South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.
THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.
#EnergyRevolution #solar #renewables #australia #makeoilhistory #auspol #NZPol #NewZealand #iran
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South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.
Something the oil and coal lobbyists fear more than death :-)
@nickofnz am I mixing up two different stories here?
Is this the same Aus state that Elon Musk made the battery storage for after the government said it couldn't be done?
It's a few years ago and my recollection is patchy at best.
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@JulianOliver don't believe the climate hype re: Australia's "massive" renewables use nearing 100% renewables. Australia is at 9% renewables as a % of total energy consumption, and is the largest user of diesel per capita in the world ⬇️
@gusseting @JulianOliver
Some nuance: if that 9% figure is correct, it would be skewed by the massive mining (and to a lesser extent) farming industries. There is very little cargo shipped by rail, with some ocean going traffic - most is moved by road in trucks.
The electricity grids are much greener than total energy use, with rooftop solar providing a lot of savings.
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@gusseting
How much of that gas usage is spent cooling methane for export? Gas networks for homes and industry are already worrying about death spirals as heat pumps replace them for heating, and state gov. incentives discourage gas cooking.
Where did that data come from? It seems like coal usage should have reduced more than that recently.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but "petrostate" refers to a country whose economy is dependent on oil exports, like Russia or Saudi Arabia. We could even say Canada is one for the sake of argument, or to make a point. Australia though is definitely not.
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@alessandro @robloblaw
Where is 10 years worth of any other countries political leaders wearing fossil fuel uniforms like Australia's does?
PETROSTATE:
"A petrostate, oil state or petrocracy is a country whose economy is heavily dependent on the extraction and export of oil or natural gas."
IEA: GAS IN AUSTRALIA
https://www.iea.org/countries/australia/natural-gas
Share of domestic gas production
367.9%
Trend
360%
change 2000-2024
How do those stats not show a petrostate?
Oil and gas is less than 4% of Australian GDP. As for coal, if we're now referring to that as petroleum, then words really have lost all meaning.
Note that I'm not defending those industries by any means - Australia is ideally placed to go solar.
@gusseting Further to that point, the top 10 selling ICE vehicles in Australia are currently cost over ten times as much to run as the top 10 selling BEV vehicles. Cheap clean electricity will flip things around. At those prices it will flip them _fast_.
@nickofnz
The South Australian grid is almost an isolated one. The transmission link to Victoria is very constrained.
Such a small geographic area (albeit one with great solar and wind resources) going 100% renewable is proof it can work everywhere.
Energy intensive industries are starting to move there for the cheap, reliable power.
@nickofnz @Bundesregierung Eure korrupte Ministerin Eon Reiche pusht währenddessen weiter extrem teuere #gewaltenergien statt günstige, klimaschonende #heimatenergien voranzutreiben und uns unabhängig zu machen.
Stoppt den Wahnsinn. Das sind die wenigen Profite nicht wert. Oder ist euch Egoisten die Welt und die Deutschen Bürger so egal?!
@nickofnz Good for Australia but doesn't mean it should (or work) for every country e.g. Finland.
But I like the idea of more autonomous life and increasing the share of renewable sources wherever it is possible.
Well obviously. For Finland it should be mostly a mix of wind, hydro and nuclear but shouldn't forget solar either, during the summer that would be excellent. And its not like the whole country is in darkness during the winter, panels would work fine in the most populated areas for 5-6 hours per day, even during the darkest time of the year.
@ddens @nickofnz of course it doesn’t. Because hydro power, wind and the sunshine are different in those countries ;)
Uruguay’s transitioning to renewable electricity was spectacular because it was fast and didn’t cost the government a penny. The whole process was overseen by a physicist not a politician. Simply by adjusting incentives and taxes the private electricity companies did all the work themselves at no cost to the government.
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