What We’re Doing Is Meant To Be Impossible
The story behind Sunshine Hydro’s Queensland iAward and why AESOP’s work on continuous clean power now matters to data centres.
Seven Hours Is Progress. Resilience Needs Days.
Storage markets are moving toward seven and eight hours, but extended renewable shortfalls require reserves designed to last for days.
Beyond Biomass
Starting with biomethanol creates a disciplined staged investment pathway that can use biogenic CO2 now and add renewable hydrogen as the economics improve.
Why Biomethanol Comes First
Why biomethanol is the practical first step in a staged green methanol pathway, with hydrogen-enhanced production added as the economics improve.
Lowest Cost Is A Product Feature
A behind-the-curtain look at why Sunshine treats cost discipline as a product feature, and how that thinking shapes the green fuels pathway.
Climate Change Is Now A Reliability Problem
Decarbonisation must now deliver both emissions reduction and reliability, because communities and industries need clean systems that keep working under stress.
Fuel Resilience Is The Molecules Side Of The Same Problem
Fuel resilience is the molecules side of the same problem Sunshine has always worked on. Pumped hydro helps make clean electricity dependable; domestic biomethanol can help keep hard-to-electrify systems moving when imported fuel supply chains are under stress.
Comparing carbon-free baseload to carbon-free baseload
The nuclear debate here in Australia lacks fair comparison to other competing technologies. It includes figures that are not applicable in the Australian context and omissions, including fair comparisons with alternative technologies. To address some of these issues, Sunshine Hydro developed the following submission to the ‘Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia’. We were pleased to present our position at one of the live hearings and to be quoted in the Courier Mail last weekend.
Our response to the proposed Clean Hydrogen Rules
Following the announcement of $2/kg Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive (HPTI), the Treasury ran a public consultation about the scheme. As often is the case, the devil is in the detail and the careful planning of this subsidy is paramount to avoid unintended adverse consequences to the Australian energy transition and leakage of subsidies outside of Australian borders.
An untold story about nuclear power
There’s been lots of discussion lately about nuclear power and its role in a future Australian grid. In a recent Investor Q&A Webinar for our equity crowdfunding campaign on Birchal, we were asked if we see nuclear power as a threat to our Superhybrid™ business model. That question inspired me to write this blog.