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Sun Cable still weighing tech options as it lays plans for world's ...
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Sun Cable is still juggling its technology options as prices for solar, battery storage and wind turbines move around. Its biggest challenge might be converter stations.
Australia lays ground for reaching 100 pct renewables with new ...
WEBAug 16, 2024 · AEMO says it is a world-first for a grid of its size, and the occasion is featured in the updated engineering roadmap that is has released this week, outlining its plan to solve all the technical ...
RenewEconomy unveils interactive maps of Australia’s big wind …
WEBMay 31, 2021 · RenewEconomy has on Monday unveiled two new interactive maps that focus on the country’s large scale wind farms and large scale solar farms. Both maps include operating projects of 10MW or above ...
Low-cost iron-air technology to feature in world's biggest battery ...
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Form Energy gets funds for groundbreaking 8.5 GWh iron-air battery, which will be capable of up to 100 hours of storage and will be the world’s biggest battery.
AGL plans huge 2GW, 2,000 MWh wind, solar and battery hub in …
WEBMar 4, 2024 · The Pottinger Energy Park – to be developed with the privately held Someva Renewables, will include a 1.2 GW wind farm (with more than 200 turbines), a 300 MW solar farm, and a 500 MW, 2000 MWh ...
Radical change needed to upgrade system to handle tidal effect of ...
WEBAug 15, 2024 · “At best that gets us to a DC7. What we need is a Space X launch vehicle. “We think that we’re getting [Space X] from our incremental changes but they only get us to a DC7.
"We need to think differently about storage:" How big batteries …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Alex Wonhas, the former head of engineering and system design at AMEO, says a rethink of the way we use big batteries could help get the energy transition back on track.
Renewable hydrogen plans backed by 32GW of solar and wind get …
WEBAug 13, 2024 · The more than $53 billion project proposes to produce around 1.6 million tonnes of green hydrogen or 9 million tonnes of green ammonia a year from up to 26GW of wind and solar farms that would be ...
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