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Interesting, but the title should mention it's localized to Australia so as to avoid arm waving from either side
by passwordoops 4y ago
Interesting, but the title should mention it's localized to Australia so as to avoid arm waving from either side
- toomuchtodo 4y agoCalifornia, on most days, is generating slightly less power from solar (~10GW) than all of Australia from coal (per https://electricitymap.org https://electricitymap.org). Texas has over 130GW of renewables in ERCOT’s interconnect queue. There are challenges to solve for, certainly, but broad strokes the decarbonization roadmap is well defined and within reach. Velocity is a function of capital and technology investment. Edit: @usefulcat https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/rampant-solars-100gw-texas-grid-queue-puts-wind-power-in-the-shade/2-1-1085068 https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/rampant-solar...
- earthboundkid 4y agoYeah. As a consumer, I put solar panels on my house in 2017. They generate about as much electricity as I consume. In theory, I will break even on the cost in another two years. Obviously, they're going to depreciate and break at some point, but the only reason ~every house doesn't have them is the price of installation. If everyone did this, you're talking about a world where we would still need non-renewables for load balancing, night time, cloudy days, etc., but we'd still have a huge reduction in carbon. The only thing stopping us from having near carbon free consumer electricity with current technology is the capital costs. So duh, the government should just loan the money to consumers and get it done. We can figure out load balancing etc. later once we pick all the low hanging fruit.
- happyopossum 4y ago> the government should just loan the money to consumers and get it done. I'm not sure everyone wants to borrow money - there are a ton of financing options for solar right now, what makes you think adding yet another one would get everyone over that hump?
- nicoburns 4y agoThey could loan the money interest free. that would make it rather a no-brainer
- usefulcat 4y ago> Texas has over 130GW of renewables in ERCOT’s interconnect queue I'm curious to know where you got the 130 GW figure? Texas consumption rarely exceeds 80 GW, even in summer, so 130 seems like a lot. https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand (Note: the Y axis in the above chart is megawatts)
- tstrimple 4y agoI just found a dashboard for the ERCOT interconnect queue. It looks like the previous person understated the amount in the queue if anything. https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYjM0YjNjZWQtM2U3ZS00ZGZiLWFjMDEtMWRkN2Q2ZTRhMzZhIiwidCI6IjVmYmY1MWMwLWNhODMtNDhmNy1hZGM0LTA0MDk0MDMyYjRkNCJ9&pageName=ReportSection42cb3d7da88493a6cae4 https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYjM0YjNjZWQtM2U3ZS00Z... Page 4 shows nearly 200 GW just for solar and wind, and a total of 275 GW.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoGood find. My figure was from September 2021, this is great to hear. I assume even more projects planned with the Inflation Reduction Act juicing renewables subsidies.
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- cinntaile 4y agoIt's the first sentence in the article, you can't really miss it.
- smileysteve 4y agoIt's suggested by the url, but if mods wanted to add [AU]
- jakewins 4y agoThis survey paper shows the same holds true pretty much everywhere, with lots of different labs using different models arriving at the same finding: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910