Australia’s renewable energy generation capacity is growing rapidly, doubling in the last five years. Much of this is from solar and wind energy. But when the wind stops and the sun goes down, can we maintain a constant power source? According to Associate Professor Behrooz Bahrani, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Australia may need to look to other sources to provide reliable baseload power. https://brnw.ch/21wN7Tg
Thomas Manley
2mo
Is there such a thing as baseload in the future? The demand curve is a curve after all, not a flat line, and increasingly, so is the supply curve. Seems that rather than talking about baseload we need to be thinking of time shifting demand and supply such that we always have sufficient despatchable energy/power to meet the variable demand. Storage (both electric and hydro) can play a critical role here.
Nuclear
Technical Director - Structures
2moHydro-electric (which is about 85% of the Tassie's power) was there for ages and not just there almonst anywhere in the world, it's news to be that this is labeled as "renewable" energy all of a sudden