2020 - Nov 15th - Major gas generator for South Australia with a 250MW big battery

 AGL unveils plans to replace a major gas generator in South Australia with a 250MW big battery.

Contrary Viewpoints:

Michael Lowe: And the reasoning depends on being able to "borrow" power from neighbouring New South Wales! What happens when NSW has no spare power to lend? No mention of the cost, which would be huge compared with alternatives. Nor of the life of this battery, when battery life is notoriously short. The bigger the battery, the longer it will take to recharge it once the emergency has receded. This is a poor decision! A modern fossil-fueled plant would have been a better long-term decision!

Daryl Earl: A number of things we know about batteries, easy to understand, a battery does not have to be flat to be useless, just flattening to the lowest required voltage , then to have a voltage and current greater then the load to start the recharge, the greater the recharger voltage the shorter the recharge time, if the battery can stand such a high current then well and good too great a current then you shorten the life of the battery, one very important point to remember, a battery that requires charging, no matter what % of charge is required, becomes a load to the circuit and that load adds to the load that is draining the battery..., hope this helps with understanding what a battery will do as far as keeping our lights on, I am thankful for the fact that we still have fossil fuel generation for our power, because without it , no wind and no shine, there will be a lot of extra load on our network recharging flat batteries.........

Margaret Graham Industry and States will do the heavy lifting on renewables and then the Feds will smugly sit back and take the credit.

Renewable energy company Neoen will pay for the 300 megawatt Tesla battery to be installed at Moorabool, near Geelong. (equivalent of powering 225,000 homes)