Published: 5 Feb 2021, 09:20
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How the 1,200MW in Hunter, New South Wales, could look. Image: CEP. Energy.
CEP. Energy, a specialist renewable energy fund company in Australia, has just announced the largest proposed grid-scale battery project in the world so far, with up to 1,200MW rated output.
Aimed at helping to integrate growing shares of renewable energy on the grid and in turn accelerate the phasing out of fossil fuels, the project will be sited in the small town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, about 150km north of Sydney on Australia’s east coast. The town lies within the Hunter Economic Zone, an industrial redevelopment scheme.
Published: 18 Jan 2021, 11:05
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Andy Colthorpe
The Neoen-Tesla Hornsdale Power Reserve battery storage project in South Australia, which in many ways kicked off a wave of large-scale battery storage project announcements across the country. Image: Neoen-Tesla.
Renewable energy developer Neoen last month published its plan for a new project in New South Wales, Australia, called the ‘Great Western Battery’ which will be among the country’s largest battery energy storage system facilities to date.
Neoen hired infrastructure services company AECOM to write a Scoping Report which outlines what the project would do and why it could be a vital asset for the region’s energy network. The system would have a “generation capacity of about 500MW” (rated output) and up to 1,000MWh capacity, capable of supporting stability of the local electricity network as New South Wales continues its transition to a greater reliance on renewable energy sources like wind and sol
April 13, 2021
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No Contest: Never Reliable Wind & Solar Can’t Compete with Ever Reliable Coal-Fired Power
Then, along came coal-fired power, and they were history.
Renewables acolytes have been massaging the numbers for years, in an attempt to show that wind and solar power are the cheapest of all.
The standard bag of tricks includes ignoring the capital cost of having every single (unreliable) megawatt of wind or solar constantly backed up by another (reliable) megawatt of coal, gas, nuclear or hydro; refusing to acknowledge the cost to power consumers of mandated targets, tax breaks and/or massive direct subsidies that exclusively benefit wind and solar; ignoring the additional transmission costs of bringing intermittent and diffuse sources of energy from remote locations (where they’re produced) to the cities where the power is consumed; and dis
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