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"Sydney has the means to become a kind of city-state of energy by taking
ownership of its electricity use and production as one big renewable energy
zone, a think tank is suggesting.
Embracing the idea – and its untapped rooftop solar potential – would make
Sydney the first city in Australia to shift the focus from extracting power
from regional areas to producing and using what it needs ‘on site’.
It would also resolve a major complaint that Australia’s regional cities and
towns are doing all the heavy lifting on renewables, while the cities reap the
benefits.
The
Sydney as a Renewable Energy Zone report says Sydney accounts for almost
half of the total energy demand in the state.
If every residential, commercial and industrial rooftop in metropolitan Sydney
was covered in solar panels the city could generate 21 megawatts (MW) of
electricity, or up to 75 per cent of the city’s needs, the report found.
And while households might only be able to cover their own use, industrial
warehouse rooftops can generate more than 500 per cent of the electricity they
need to operate.
In the report, the think tank Committee for Sydney spun up a utopian vision of
an almost-self-contained energy city that pairs rooftop solar with home,
community, mid-sized industrial and grid-scale batteries, orchestrates these
within virtual power plants (VPPs) that make use of the city’s two existing
energy distribution networks.
All of which would be collaboratively run and shared “by all”."
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
