It's not just sheep that like solar over farmland - solar panels provide farmworkers shelter from the sun and reduces fatigue:

'A recent study in Colorado USA found that farmworkers can also benefit. It spoke to workers and took various physical heat stress metrics, finding that the panels can help farms avoid conditions conducive to dangerous heat stress.'

#solar #Energy #AgriPV #Agricu #agrivoltaics #agriculture
https://news.agu.org/press-release/solar-panels-over-crops-may-boost-farmworkers-comfort/

This makes clear why coal and gas is unloved while renewables are booming in Australia (and the world):

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/what-is-the-cheapest-form-of-electricity-for-australia/

David Osmond -FB #energy #Australia

Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM, will soon have 40GW/113GWh of storage (not including Snowy2.0).
That's enough storage to power the grid for about 4.5hrs at average demand of ~25GW.

Those of you who follow my weekly renewable simulations will know that it assumes 24GW/120GWh of storage, and is running at 98.5% renewable over the last 4+ years.

Thus, within just a handful of years, the NEM will have enough storage to achieve ~98% renewable supply.

Australia
NEM
Batteries soaking up excess solar and pushing out peaking gas overnight, then dumping the left over, before the sun comes up, to start over again.

There has been a run in recent days of batteries supplying more electricity than gas. From 24 Dec to 2nd of January.

#Electricity #solar #PV #energy #Australia

The biggest oil exporter on Earth is building massive solar farms and battery grids. Not because they’re green — because it’s cheaper, faster, and smarter. They power themselves with sunlight and sell the oil to you. Mock clean energy all you like — you’re the product funding it. #EVs #Solar #BESS

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Recycling the Future: PV Industries Launches New Solar Recycling Facility in Sydney

A big day for Australia’s circular energy economy!

PV Industries officially launched their state-of-the-art solar recycling facility in Bankstown, Sydney today - an innovation that can deframe and deglass a panel in under a minute, setting new standards for solar sustainability.

#SmartEnergyCouncil #SolarRecycling #CircularEconomy #solar #energy #Sydney #austraila

No need to continually truck fuel over thousands of kilometres anymore for these fillup sites - these are from sunlight direct to EVs as photos of some of the remote EV charging spots across remote Australia show:

#Solar #Energy #cars #EV #Australia
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Australia’s main grid hits new renewable record share of 77.9 per cent, driven by rooftop solar – the second time in 48 hours that the record has been broken.

Driven by large amounts of rooftop solar generation, which on this occasion accounted for more than 43 % of grid demand.

The share might have been higher but large amounts, five GW– of potential large scale wind and solar output was curtailed, mostly due to negative prices.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-main-grid-hits-new-renewable-record-share-of-77-9-per-cent-driven-by-rooftop-pv/

#solar #Energy #austraia #records