Western Australia is going to shut down its cold fire power plant in a few years. They’re building several battery energy storage systems to soak up solar energy from rooftop solar systems during the daytime. Western Australia is unique in that their grid is independent from the rest of Australia. What I think is so very interesting and important is that the Australians will prove beyond doubt that a grid can go completely renewable without any base load generation, and do it year round. There are so many naysayers that say it can’t be done; this is going to prove that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
Construction begins on four hour Kwinana battery to soak up rooftop solar
