Community is why we are in business
Technology and economics as ‘how’ we will bring our vision to life. Community and environment are ‘why’ we will bring it to life. Or, more broadly, ‘why’ we are in business. Like in all organisations, ‘why’ is where the passion lies.
The carbon-free base load that isn’t nuclear
The world is facing a perfect storm with scarcity driving up fossil fuel prices just as we need to urgently address our carbon emission targets. So it’s not surprising a debate has developed in Australia about the pros and cons of nuclear power.
AESOP disrupts pumped hydro industry – Improves project profits by over 100%
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
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.
How Sunshine Hydro can put Downward Pressure on Electricity Prices
Electricity spot prices are more than double where they were 12 months ago according to AEMO’s quarterly energy dynamics report.
How to be Carbon Neutral in Real Time
Google is taking action to properly account for the carbon used by its data centres around the world. This is how Google describes their goal.
The Case for Deep Storage
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
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…
Pumped Hydro Plants one of Cheapest Sources of Electricity
Here’s some useful data from Acciona about pumped hydro however they still talk about pumped hydro as though it will be used to match demand peaks…
‘Get Used to Blackouts’ — Warning from IHA Congress
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…
