by Graham Palmer | Jun 29, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
The NRDC baseload twitter storm The release of a Brattle report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) resulted in a Twitter storm and much commentary over the meaning of ‘baseload’. Mark Diesendorf had pushed back against the term more than 10 years ago. But...
by Graham Palmer | Jun 17, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
Synchronous grids and inertia The Australian NEM spans five states and 4,500 km and has around 260 registered generators, all of which, when online, are synchronous machines spinning in near-exact synchronization at close to 50 Hz across the network (the island state...
by Graham Palmer | May 4, 2017 | Electricity
A few thoughts on the electricity ‘death spiral’ One of Germany’s exports has been the idea of ‘energy democratisation’ – the Energiewende is not just a transition to renewable energy but a switch to energy democracy. But was does energy democracy...
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...
by Graham Palmer | Dec 7, 2016 | Electricity, Energy efficiency, Networks
Igor Bashmakov is one of the leading Russian experts on climate change and energy efficiency. Bashmakov developed three general energy transition laws: the law of stable long-term energy costs to income ratio; the law of improving energy quality; and the law of...
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