Valuy@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoAustralian leader warns people: "The months ahead may not be easy. Please consider using public transport"www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1470arrow-down17
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minus-squareTeppa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-212 hours agoI assume its energy storage problems, and its not efficient enough to import solar and the large amount of batteries required from China yet. Maybe if Australia keeps increasing its coal exports to China the price will come down as energy prices fall in China.
minus-squarefenrasulfr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoIs it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?
minus-squareTeppa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoTotal cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.
I assume its energy storage problems, and its not efficient enough to import solar and the large amount of batteries required from China yet.
Maybe if Australia keeps increasing its coal exports to China the price will come down as energy prices fall in China.
Is it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?
Total cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.