From CSIRO
Storage of renewable energy will be essential to Australia’s net zero transition but will require significant investment, according to the latest roadmap released today by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.
The Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap shows that storage capacity must grow significantly over coming decades to keep pace with rapidly rising electricity demand, which is projected to increase as building and transport industries electrify.
The report indicates that the national electricity market (NEM) could require a 10 to 14-fold increase in its electricity storage capacity between 2025-2050.
It also found that while traditional storage technologies (such as batteries and pumped hydro) will continue to play a key role, all forms of energy storage must be considered to meet Australia’s growing demand across multiple sectors.
In response to common challenges around decarbonisation and technology readiness, the roadmap examines the role of storage for seven sectors, highlights specific challenges and technology options, and finds that individual sectors favour different storage technologies.
CSIRO Chief Executive Larry Marshall noted new technologies would be needed to increase penetration of renewables and stabilise the grid while we start to build utility scale storage capacity.
“Over the long-term storage will accelerate the integration of renewables, enhancing grid stability and reliability, and supporting decarbonisation of industries,” Dr Marshall said.
“There is no silver bullet for reaching net zero so we need multiple shots on goal, like from renewables, batteries, hydrogen, thermal storage, pumped hydro, sustainable aviation fuels and a host of new science-driven technologies.
“Reaching net zero is a wicked challenge, we need a robust pipeline of projects that use diverse technologies supported by industry, government, research and community stakeholders to ensure that no industry and no Australian is left behind,” he said.
CSIRO Energy Director Dietmar Tourbier said the roadmap is a major step towards pinpointing fit-for-purpose solutions for energy storage.
“For example, batteries may be the best option for local and short duration storage of electricity while thermal or heat energy (like steam) might be technology better suited for heat intensive industries,” Dr Tourbier said.
“Government and industry have recognised energy storage as a priority. However, significant knowledge gaps remain, requiring further investigation to support informed action.
“Co-investment is required across the system to accelerate technology commercialisation and scale up across a diverse portfolio of energy storage technologies,” he said.
The roadmap builds on prior publications and scenarios to estimate storage demand across multiple use cases and Australian jurisdictions. It also extends the discussion to new technology areas (for example hydrogen and thermal energy storage), pointing out sector-specific requirements, technology summaries and recommendations for scale-up.
To inform the role of energy storage, report authors brought together government and industry stakeholders, alongside CSIRO modelling and analysis.
This report is a valuable distillation of the challenges with energy storage and is released ahead of the launch of our Renewable Energy Powerhouse Mission and the Revolutionary Energy Storage Systems Future Science Platform. It is an important catalyst for discussions and actions in pursuing a robust, sustainable renewable energy economy, built on Australia’s critical minerals endowment.
Download the Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap.
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NET ZERO and its unreliables is a subject worthy of Clown Planet.
Listen to the Madame Presidente and CEO of the Solar Energies Industries Assoc schmooze the Q & A on the tax credit for electric cars.
Oh no she wouldn’t characterize that as “paying people to drive them.” Honk. Honk. The guy behind the Senator for Louisiana knows he has been cast in a Looney Toon. R-Louisiana, gives up. You can’t fix stupid. And you certainly can’t fix ‘paid to be stupid’.
This guy knows.
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See Senator Gerard Rennick’s comment re a 2013 CSIRO audit. It is possible that Australia reached net zero years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV8a-sDme2s&list=PLyUQI7B0E8oTBCJf6noKZxXjgAzpLxP5c&index=6
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Stage 6 load shedding here we come. How is that working out for the Communist gov’t in South Africa?
https://headtopics.com/za/ramaphosa-says-he-doesn-t-know-and-doesn-t-plan-to-find-out-which-ministers-allegedly-looted-eskom-38189832
Zimbabwe to the North is a colony of the CCP. Child slavery in the lithium mines for these EV batteries to store unreliable energy is legal. Cannibalism is OK.
Captain Planet.
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Did I mention the CSIRO is shit?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/1540-experts-agree-there-is-no-climate-emergency/
FWIW, Martin Armstrong is a genuinely humble guy, a meticulaously honest straight-shooter, and a bona fide analytic economic genius to boot. In its decades of operation, his AI program Socrates has NEVER been wrong.
Even Martin Armstrong would agree – the CSIRO is shit. There ARE NO CSIRO “scientists” – anyone and everyone even remotely associated with the CSIRO is an intellectually bankrupt pathologically lying scheming double-dealing lowlife two-face walking piece of shit.
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the CSIRO is shit.
If you work for the CSIRO, you’re NOT a “scientist” – you’re SHIT. Face it, you walk around all day taking a big fat government salary with your vacuous jumbo-sized skull firmly implanted up your own brainless but exceedingly hairy BUTT.
ANY halfway self-educated Australian individual can see the AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-SIZED HOLE in the official “net zero” narrative – namely that it SERVES NO PURPOSE aside from dismantling our economically viable industrial economy and substituting a guaranteed formula for widespread poverty, starvation and economic collapse.
Yes, that’s right – NO PURPOSE.
PLEASE cut the politically correct Globalist-driven pseudo-science “climate change” CRAP. It’s done – it’s OVER. You’ve had your thirty years of fun spraying us all with your bald-faced lying Orwellian BS.
We’ve wiped the bovine faeces out of our eyes and off our sunnies and SEE THE TRUTH. We’ve SEEN your falsified “science” and Globalist-funded “think tanks” and we KNOW YOU’RE A PACK OF PATHOLOGIC LIARS.
If you work for the CSIRO in any capacity, then EVERYONE knows that you’re a USELESS LYING PIECE OF SHIT.
So do us all a favour and go flush yourself down the nearest toilet.
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To Lindesymonds
You banged the nail right on the head, the decommissioning of coal and gas is a smoke screen we are the carbon they want to get rid of as we are carbon based life,
as for the naysayers we happen to occupy the atmosphere as well although at ground level.
wind farms and lithium batteries are destructive to the environment during the manufacturing process, the blades on the wind farms only have a certain life span, and guess where those blades go? land fill as they cant be recycled . Lithium batteries only have a certain life span as well , and are prone to catching fire if they get to hot, yet china are going hand over fist in building coal fired power stations and contribute more Co2 ( the gas of life ) to the atmosphere than anyone else.
the end game is all about turning the west into a third world shit hole, once the U.S. is taken down which is happening now its all over for us in the west thanks to our treasonous politicians.
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Biochemistry is the chemistry of carbon. It is part of the life cycle of the entire planet and the CO2 / O2 exchange of every carbon based life form.
The ‘net zero carbon’ emission concept is absurd , as a policy goal it is completely sociopathic. It is a blind and cover story for depopulation. This is a code word for depopulation. We are the carbon they want to reduce – the human population which uses fire, generates energy, farms, invents, builds, makes and produces.
Of course this price on carbon and ‘net zero carbon’ business doesn’t apply to financial, corporate and gov’t elites jetting around in their private jets to climate change conferences.
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The numbers on rare earth metals, industrial metals, and similar, compared to how many exist on earth in total are also eye opening and show that NONE of it is even close to possible.
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CSIRO states – “reaching net zero is a wicked challenge”
…Err no, it’s a very wicked depopulation agenda.
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Am I mad, everything I read makes me think that this journey zero carbon is that it will make electricity much more expensive for us, the general public. AND closing down our coal mines will drastically reduce our export earnings….. So who are the winners? Why are the main political parties in favour of pushing the policies that affect the general public and the country so adversely? What are their motivating factors?
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