[Shiraz (Ray)]

for interest, according to the SA Advertiser, the board of GFG Alliance (new owner of ZEN Energy) has committed to a strategic plan to establish nearly 1GW of dispatchable renewable power in SA.

plans are:
- 100MW/120MWh lithium ion battery at Pt Augusta to be operating Q1 2019 (same size as the nearly complete Tesla battery at Jamestown)

- 200MW solar PV plant in Whyalla on line early 2019

- 120MW/600MWh pumped hydro in the Middleback ranges operating by 2020

- addition 480MW solar committed to but details not yet finalised

there are many other such plans underway in SA and it all seems to be happening in spite of the best efforts of coal lobby, The Australian and the shock jocks telling everyone that renewables do not work.

cheers Ray

Edit: also just for interest, it seems that the new "in" word is "dispatchable" energy, which presumably means that it can be turned on and off to meet short term demand, rather than the old favourite "base load", which refers to very long time constant generation (coal fired steam for example) that is very slow to fire up and shut down.