Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "It begins - Free electricity across all of Europe every weekend...." video.

Queensland has the largest solar farm in Australia, and lots of rooftop solar, but not enough battery capacity. They keep pretending we need gas peaker plants at 70x the cost of battery power - so we end up paying more and more expensive bills. Corruption is rife between the energy sector and government in Australia. 😒
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@maxflight777 Batteries have proven to be faster at dispatching power during times of peak demand. I'm not "suspicious," I'm just aware of the facts.
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@skygge1006 We need new investment in batteries, not gas. You are flat out wrong.
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@skygge1006 Supply follows demand, and demand is very high. The price of grid scale batteries is falling rapidly over the last decade (by over 600%) and the rate of production is growing apace. Elon Musk's Megapacks are the fastest growing part of his business, and China is in hot pursuit.
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@grantbuttenshaw Elon Musk is making a fortune from grid batteries. He says they are the fastest growing part of his business. He's building factories to make them in the US. Indeed, demand is so high that the price of Li-ion battery storage has plummeted from $1,200/kWh in 2010 to $151 in 2022 (according to Bloomberg research figures), and Musk can still make a profit. Both Germany and the U.S reward the pairing of renewables with battery storage. Furthermore, the IEA anticipates grid-scale battery storage will grow from 18GW in 2020 to 610GW in 2030, to 3,100GW in 2050. *(Energy Monitor, Feb. 27, 2023).
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@grantbuttenshaw Rubbish. LCOE represents the full cost over time, which is why it is the accepted standard by the International Energy Agency. As for your claim about China, China reached 8.7GW of battery storage in 2022, up 110% year on year, putting it on target to reach its target of 50GW of battery storage by 2025 (climateandcapitalmedia), driving global demand to 100GWh (South China Morning Post, 5 Feb, 2023).
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@grantbuttenshaw The same news is reported in Bloomberg and on the International Energy Agency website, mate.
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@grantbuttenshaw You are simply insisting on ignoring EXISTING REALITY.
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@grantbuttenshaw I don't know what you don't comprehend about the FACT that batteries are 30% cheaper at providing emergency power at peak demand than gas is. It's simple, existing, fact.
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@grantbuttenshaw This comment (that solar panels have been "getting more expensive" for years, truly proves you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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@grantbuttenshaw I don't recall. I think that price included the cost of generation as well, when the generation came from solar (which is the cheapest means of power generation by far, on a levelled cost of energy basis, according to IEA figures). Nevertheless, according to the Clean Energy Council, a 4-hour battery provides cost savings of more than 30% (and a 2-hour battery 17% cost savings) on a levelised cost of energy basis than do gas power peaking plants to supply emergency power (2021 figures). So the whole vaunted "gas-led recovery" is a complete con, even for emergency supply.
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@grantbuttenshaw LCOSS (Levelised cost of solar and storage) does, though; and it too, has been substantially decreasing, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the U.S.
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@grantbuttenshaw According to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the latest CSIRO and AEMO's GenCost 2021-2022 report: Wind and solar are the cheapest sources for electricity AND STORAGE in Australia. (*source: energy. gov .au, 12 July, 2022). Face the FACTS.
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@grantbuttenshaw This discussion is about the cost of solar, and whether gas peaker plants are required to lead a phoney 'gas-led recovery", or not. I've proven they are NOT. Your red herrings are just a bald attempt to pull the discussion off topic. Why are you even bleating on about copper? How is it relevant?
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@freeheeler09 Me too!🙂
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@skygge1006 Nor did I say batteries would "magically be summoned." I said supply follows demand. And as demand has skyrocketed due to massive increases in new solar - so too is supply skyrocketing and being massively ramped up at the moment. Check out the figures if you don't believe me. We need new battery investment, NOT new gas investment, as the corrupt Australian government keeps trying to fool us we do.
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@dirkmirk767 According to the Australian Government's own press release from the Department of Energy and Environment, solar, wind and battery energy is now the cheapest form of energy in Australia. Get it?
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