Quelle: Offene Elektrizität
Tools: Open Electricity-Datenexport, Strata (OE-internes Analysetool), Claude, Premiere Pro
Jedes Bild in dieser Animation zeigt einen einzelnen Monat, von Mai 2024 bis April 2026. Die x-Achse ist die Tagesstunde und die y-Achse ist die in Queensland erzeugte Megawatt-Strommenge, gemittelt über jeden Tag dieses Monats.
Die beiden „Unebenheiten“ in jedem Diagramm sind Zeiten des Spitzenverbrauchs im Stromsystem, wenn Haushalte Elektrogeräte zum Kochen und Heizen oder Kühlen ihrer Häuser usw. einschalten. Diese Tageszeiten sind am schwierigsten zu dekarbonisieren, da die Solarenergie gering und der Wind schwankend ist. Traditionell hat die Gaserzeugung diese Lücke gefüllt.
Aufgrund des rekordverdächtigen Einsatzes von Batterien im Versorgungsmaßstab im gesamten australischen Stromnetz fressen Batterien nun das Frühstück … und das Abendessen der Gaserzeugung.
Von paperadam
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Source: [Open Electricity](http://openelectricity.org.au)
Tools: Open Electricity data export, Strata (OE in-house analysis tool), Claude, Premiere Pro
I misread the title and I thought somehow coin batteries were helping the power grid
That must be a fuck ton of watch batteries to have that effect. Those things are tiny.
We’ve gone from about $200-$300 a month for electricity, to just $30-50. With the lower amount being the supply charge from the grid.
It’s crazy how quick exponential growth gets for technology adoption.
The thing that really did this was the government basically saying they would pay for part of the battery cost. It brought the cost of batteries from a „Yeah, it’ll kind of pay for itself in a reasonable time.“ To „Yeah, that’s a really fast payback.“
The side channel of this is that the transmission costs drastically fall from local batteries that also do some local export. Since by their nature, battery power rarely has to travel far since it’ll mostly be a person selling power to their next door neighbor.
Another aspect is that most of the Australian grid is within an hour of each other timezone wise, it largely runs north south. There has been talk of joining east and west coast, but give WA was lucky enough to avoid privitisation of its power grid, it’ll likely end up with the East sucking WA dry due to its cheap gas.
Oh look, the switch to turn off the orphan crushing machine was right here all along.
Less than two years to effectively replace the gas peakers is fucking insane
The „peaking role“ is reserved for power cycles that are only started up during peak hours, they are know as peakers. These require fast startups, hence what you are plotting is only Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) power plants.
From the [sources you shared](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/qld1/?range=1y&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed&show=curtailment_wind,curtailment_solar_utility), it can be seen how OCGT only accounted for 0.6% of the anual generation during the May 2025 – May 2026 period, while Combined Cycle Units (CCU) and other gas based power cycles accounted for more than 5%. Batteries were at 1.2% and actually at a higher price than energy produced in CCU.
What I didn’t expect is the generation to come 62% from coal… Before trying to reduce NG dependence (with little emissions and pollution), it would be better to focus on replacing coal powered power plants.
Just a heads up to add my two cents to the full picture.
But why wont someone think of the gas industry profits ????
There was me thinking that wristwatches can’t consume that much electricity
Need to get this onto the Aus subs so people can see how we should be taxing gas and investing that in battery storage rather than albo’s stupid gas reserve policy.
In Denmark, batteries have started to be introduced as a stability thing and because they can regulate much faster than rotating mass, the frequency fluctuations has become notably smaller in a span of less than 2 years.
Gas powered watch batteries?