my household consumption is average for a QLD household of 4...

my household consumption is average for a QLD household of 4 people with no gas according the infographic provided by Energex....no air conditioning either...


So - what EV do you have that requires three times your daily household consumption to travel 40km??? Is the vehicle requiring a full charge to travel 40km as you have allowed AGL to control it as a virtual BESS??? Most EV manufacturers now provide 8 years warranty on the battery - and at that stage the battery should be able to hold at least 70% of its original charge when "full"





As a person who works in both thermal and renewable energy - you are aware of the problems that causes to lithium batteries if they are discharged too hard, too often? Or even fully charged too often also

Back to base load... I still cannot see why you think it impossible for coal to be replaced as baseload... as I type this, wind is providing 20% of the NEM's demand (yep, coal is doing the heavy lifting)...94% of SA is wind right now, 25% of Vic is wind, even Tasmanias Hydro is being supported by a healthy dose of wind... it is NSW with its lagging development processes and QLD - which will have a different story to tell by end of year that are making the numbers worse than they are... Macintyres 1.026GW farm alone will vastly increase QLDs supply from the currently woefully inadequate 4% of state total

from my previous post:
"Just for 2024 - these wind farms are inline for commissioning and operation Rye Park 396MW (NSW), Clarke Creek 450MW (QLD) (squadron actually list it on their website as 564MW), Macintyre 1026MW (QLD) , Goyder South 412Mw (SA - stage 1 is wind), Ryan Corner 218Mw (VIC)"
source: https://reneweconomy.com.au/large-scale-wind-farm-map-of-australia/

Real question is: how will coal power plants adapt to ultra low loads when we have renewable energy sources coming online that can generate below their base costs during periods of low demand? especially if those periods are prolonged... clearly we all know that there will also be periods of low wind in areas such as SA.... or NSW... or QLD... but the beautiful thing there is that they are so geographically diverse, that it isn't typically at the same time - when enough scale is present