by Graham Palmer | Mar 25, 2017 | Coal
What does the loss of Hazelwood mean for reliability Fairfax reported that “Victoria is facing an unprecedented 72 days of possible power supply shortfalls over the next two years following the shutdown of the Hazelwood plant next week.” This was picked up...
by Graham Palmer | Mar 22, 2017 | EROI
EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry I recently did a presentation on the EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry. The key aims were – Calculate how much energy it takes to build, run and maintain the Australian electricity supply...
by Graham Palmer | Mar 19, 2017 | Electricity, Pumped hydro storage
A pumped hydro primer Nearly all electrical storage to date has been pumped hydro storage (PHS), which makes up 97% or 142 GW of global power capacity for electrical storage. The three leading PHS countries are Japan with 26 GW, China at 24 GW and the US at 22 GW. The...
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