Energy world keen on local battery tech

Australian Community Media

A deep-storage battery being trialled in Kununurra in the Kimberley region of Western Australia could solve the clean energy challenge for some of the nation's most remote communities.

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00:00It's a great day, and this is new technology which is going to help the transition away

00:05from fossil fuels.

00:07Look I think any stability in this system is a good thing, but it's also being able

00:11to use that renewable energy we have, whether it's hydro, whether it's solar, whether

00:15it's wind, we need to be able to store that energy somehow to dispatch it when it's

00:20needed most.

00:21So we know that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, so batteries

00:26are the answer in terms of capturing that energy when it's available and then dispatching

00:30it when it's really needed, and that tends to be after 6pm at night when everyone comes

00:36home and turns their home appliances on.

00:38This is a vanadium flow battery, it's the first for Horizon Power, it's a 40 year old

00:44technology invented in Australia at the University of New South Wales.

00:49This type of battery has been grid connected for 20 years, and it's now really coming

00:54to its own with the energy transition because we're looking at longer duration batteries

00:58to enable renewable energy like solar to be shifted from day to evening.

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