Qld Labor knocking down Swanbank Power Station and replacing it with $330m Eveready batteries that last for two hours.
Premier Miles on return trip from Mars says (highly subsidised) renewables are pushing down power costs below zero! Goodbye to any manufacturing or engineering shopsBatteries costing $300m to replace efficient Swanbank gas -fired power station south of BrisbaneConstruction has started on the 250MW/500MWh Swanbank Battery south of Brisbane, setting in progress one of Queensland’s biggest battery energy storage systems, and the first to be built by the state’s publicly owned utility CleanCo. The $330 million big battery is being developed by CleanCo in partnership with Tesla and Yurika at the site of the former Swanbank B coal-fired power plant outside Ipswich, as part of the Swanbank Clean Energy Hub.Queensland Labor says the big battery will have the capacity to store enough energy – largely from solar generated across local rooftops – to power more than two-thirds of Ipswich for two hours each night when demand rises as the sun sets. It’s because of new technologies like this that we will reach the ambitious energy targets put before parliament,” said Queensland premier Steven Miles on Monday.“Renewables are driving down the spot wholesale price of power below zero, which is why we will continue to invest in them.”CleanCo CEO Tom Metcalfe says the BESS marks the beginning of the Swanbank Power Station’s “transformative journey” away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Once part of a precinct of coal-fired power stations – Swanbank A, B, C and D – the gas-fired Swanbank E remains the only operating power station on the site.“This is the beginning of a new era for Swanbank and CleanCo is proud to be the custodian of a site which has evolved and adapted with Queensland’s energy landscape from coal to gas and now new battery technologies,” Metcalfe said on Monday.Editor:
Today we saw a household bill from state-owned energy company Ergon that went from $400 to $900 in three months. Brainless Queensland Labor and Greens think gas and coal are fossil fuels. There is no hope for Queensland as the long march of de-industrialisation sallies on….
