Hi All,
Someone must have been listening to me!?
Imagine the lithium we would churn out with Galaxy if this materialised!?
There's a video on this web site, (reference below) as well -
"Power grid not ready for spike in electric vehicles
The nation's power grid requires swift upgrades to avoid energy shortages from a predicted spike in the uptake of electric vehicles over the next decade.
As Prime Minister Scott Morrison sharpened his attack on Labor's pledge to massively boost sales of electric vehicles, a new report led by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has warned that preparations must be made now to avoid grid instability in the future.
The report, obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, said action was needed to avoid problems once electric vehicle usage started to spike beyond 2025, but it was difficult to predict the uptake even without changes to government policy.
Labor has pledged to lift electric vehicles' share of the market to 50 per cent of new cars sold in the country by "The transition to powered electric vehicles has the potential to have a material impact on the electricity distribution network because charges are significant electrical loads," said the report, due to be released on Tuesday.
"This will require ... crafted network architecture."
The ARENA report, produced in conjunction with the South Australian government and South Australia Power Networks, warns that electric vehicles could create higher than expected demand and that a flood of vehicles plugging in at the end of a hot summer weekday could overwhelm the grid.
While the research was focused on South Australia, its stated intention was to inform policy around the country.
While finding that the introduction of electric vehicles will deliver "substantial benefits" it calls for more research into how electric vehicles could affect the grid and careful management of the rollout of charging infrastructure to stay on top of "hot spots"
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Dan Hilson, the report's author and chief executive of electric vehicle-focused company Evenergi, said that as Australia was a laggard in electric vehicle uptake it could avoid the missteps of other countries.
“We can learn from others mistakes and get a better start," he said.
He pointed to the potential of electric vehicles, saying mobile batteries could help with grid stability, particularly when renewable energy sources such as wind were not available.
The warning from ARENA comes after it was revealed last week that the energy market operator had been forced to intervene on a daily basis to keep the lights on in the face of an unstable grid.
The chief executive of lobby group Energy Networks Australia, Andrew Dillon, said planning was already under way for the jump in electric vehicles.
"There are huge opportunities with electric vehicles but also significant challenges," Mr Dillon said.
"Electric vehicles [integration], if done badly, could be really harmful because [they charge when] someone comes home at 5 o'clock on a hot afternoon, plugs in their EV, walks inside and turns on their air conditioner."
Mr Dillon said there were technological answers to some of the foreseeable problems, such as only charging cars off-peak.
Publication of the report follows a sustained attack from the Morrison government on federal
Labor's proposal to make 50 per cent of all new vehicles sold in Australia electric by 2030.
Electric vehicles currently account for fewer than 1 per cent of the cars on the road.
This target was rubbished by Energy Minister Angus Taylor, who said it was set "without a strategy to achieve it", while Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed Labor would "end the weekend" by robbing people of their 4WDs.
Self-styled "modern Liberals" joined the attack on Monday, with Liberal MP Jason Falinski warning that Labor's electric car agenda would be "Pink Batts all over again" by compelling people to adopt a product the market was not actively seeking.
Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma argued the policy had shades of communism.
"I don't want to see it like the Soviet Union where we all have to buy a Trabant," he said in a reference to the notoriously unreliable vehicle produced in East Germany.
At a Senate estimates hearing on Monday, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Labor's electric car target was like the government forcing consumers to maintain a certain diet.
"I like ice-cream. And I buy ice-cream. But I'm not proposing a law that [says] 50 per cent of everybody's food has to be ice-cream," he said.
"I happen to think that brussels sprouts is an amazing and very healthy food and I happily eat it regularly. But I'm not proposing a law that 50 per cent of all food that Australians consume must be brussels sprouts."
Mr Sharma said he supported having more electric cars on the road but "I wouldn't be going around setting targets".
Mr Falinski defended his analogy to the insulation batts program, saying: "We’re just making a political point. We’re not saying people are going to die."
Latimer, C. (09-04-2019) Power grid not ready for spike in electric vehicles
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