Major coal-fired power stations that generate about half of Australia’s electricity are set to shut. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY – Like so much in our modern era, Australia’s high-stakes gamble on renewable energy starts with an Elon Musk Twitter brag.
Mr Musk responded: “Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?” “It’s really a remarkable story,” said Ms Audrey Zibelman, the former head of the Australian Energy Market Operator, or AEMO, the agency that runs the grid, and now an adviser to Alphabet Inc’s X.
Australia’s great coal switch-off is coming. New South Wales, the most populous state and home to Sydney, will lose one massive plant this month, followed by Eraring, the country’s largest, in 2025. Victoria, the second most populous state, saw a major site shuttered in 2017. Next up is Yallourn Power Station, which dates back more than a century and is scheduled to close in 2028.
His treasurer and an eventual successor, Mr Scott Morrison, once brought a lump of coal into parliament to taunt his pro-climate adversaries. Of 15 key coal plants that power Australia’s main national grid, one-third are officially scheduled to shut by 2030. In less than 20 years, all of the country’s coal plants could be closed, the agency says.
“We are the global pathfinder for demonstrating that the rapid transition is possible,” Prof Blakers said. “And it’s turning out to be much easier than most people think.” Batteries can also solve a more technical problem. Coal generators do something wind and solar can’t: their giant spinning turbines provide inertia, which regulates the frequency of the entire grid. Without it, the network becomes highly unstable and the risk of blackouts soars.
What is needed, he says, is “deep storage” which can last weeks. He says currently the only feasible answer is natural gas, a fossil fuel.
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