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"The Australian infrastructure investor Quinbrook has unveiled plans for a
series of massive eight-hour solar batteries that they say will offer Australia
the best – and possibly the only chance – to protect Australian manufacturing
and attract new industries.
The plans unveiled by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners would involve three
such batteries in Queensland – in Brisbane and the industrial centres of
Gladstone and Townsville – and possibly two in NSW.
Together, they would comprise 3 gigawatts and 24 gigawatt hours of storage
capacity, with two thirds of it in the sunshine state, and a further gigawatt
and 8 GWh in NSW. Another may be built in the Northern Territory, where
Quinbrook is involved in the first, locally focused stage of the massive Sun
Cable project.
Quinbrook co-founder and managing partner David Scaysbrook says the plan to
build large scale solar farms with eight hour batteries will get the country
one step closer to the “holy grail” of 24/7 renewable power.
“This is the ‘dam busting’ moment for this country’s decarbonisation,” he says.
“Solar teamed with battery storage is the engine room of the energy transition. It is the anchor technology combination to deliver low cost power.”
Quinbrook describes the plan as a “world-first”, simply because of the scale of
the plans and the nature of the technology that they are using from China’s
CATL."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
