Sunshine Hydro shares articles on topics relating to the renewables industry.
AESOP disrupts pumped hydro industry – Improves project profits by over 100%
Published
July 26, 2022
AESOP (Advanced Energy Storage Optimising Program) is software that enables engineers to accurately model and optimise hybrid renewable energy storage projects.
Sunshine Hydro hits the Energy Trifecta: Reliable, Cheap and Green
Published
June 7, 2022
In this article, we model the expected performance of a Superhybrid against the combined output of a coal-powered turbine at Liddell Power Station and the gas-powered Colongra Power Station during the the May 2021 outage at Calide.
Hydro Tasmania gets it when it comes to deep storage — well, kind of, and we’ll get to that later. But they do certainly understand one of the key values of deep storage. In a paper prepared by Tas Hydro for ARENA, they find that...
Strathclyde University Discussion Paper on Pumped Hydro
Published
November 1, 2021
The case for pumped hydro in the UK energy mix is put in this paper recently released by the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
The authors draw three main conclusions...
‘Get Used to Blackouts’ — Warning from IHA Congress
Published
November 1, 2021
An International Government-led coalition calls for urgent action on pumped storage hydropower.
‘Get used to blackouts’ or risk reverting to fossil fuels is the warning, unless the world scales up investment in water batteries to support fast-growing solar and wind power...