Renewable energy provides the cheapest source of new energy for Australia, a new draft report from the CSIRO and energy market operator has found.

Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds::Renewable energy provides the cheapest source of new energy for Australia, a new draft report from the CSIRO and energy market operator has found.

    • CybranM@feddit.nuEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Hydo is limited in where it can be used and where it can be used if often already is. Batteries can’t yet provide a grid level base load. I don’t know much about green hydrogen but there’s usually a loss of energy when converting from one medium to another.

    • realitistaEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you didn’t have sun or wind or whatever for weeks at a time, you’d need such an absurdly sized battery so as to be untenable. What do you do if you mainly have solar but it’s cloudy most of the winter? For these kind of things you will always need a certain amount of baseload power.