Credit: AI-generated image (disclaimer) Already under pressure from cheaper renewable technologies, coal power station operators now find themselves potentially facing much higher costs in the short-term. There's no relief for coal in the long term either, with the rapid rise of renewables and ot...
Pismo Beach, CA, June 02, 2015 — /EPR ENERGY NEWS/ — On April 21, 2015, California Senate Bill SB286 passed a Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee (11-0) and indicates the legislature’s desire to support both individual choice (increase the DA CAP) and renewable...
Inertia on a renewables grid can be provided by synchronous condensers or by large battery banks with specialised electronics. Of course, the batteries have to have enough charge in them to function, so they are reserved for just that purpose and thus can’t be used for other purposes like g...
The state governments also have their own drought relief measures, including transport and fodder subsidies, and sometimes reductions in local government fees and charges. Mick Keogh [of the Australian Farm Institute] says state governments administer drought assistance on an “ad-hoc basis”. “They...