hey remember how all the jokers were screaming about renewables destabilising the grid and burning shit was better, no it was absolutely necessary

while we told you already that (local redundant battery firmed renewable micro grids would fix, no even prevent this

On Wednesday, as the temperature soared into the 40s across large parts of southern Australia, the country’s biggest electricity market stayed eerily quiet. Spot prices — a key sign of the balance between supply and demand across the national electricity market serving Australia’s eastern seaboard — were subdued. The Australian Energy Market Operator, which keeps the lights on across the NEM, was issuing few warnings about the risks to supply.

Bruce Mountain from the Victoria Energy Policy Centre said the significance of the shift was hard to overstate. In essence, he said the explosive growth of solar power in particular had diminished the risks of blackouts during heatwaves caused by supply shortfalls.

oh wait they’re still propaganda spamming about how important it is to burn coal

Mr Mountain said the apparent ease with which the market sailed through the heatwave this week was still thanks in large part to coal plants. “As long as we’ve got the existing coal generators in the market, which are desperately needed at those times, it’s not a problem,” he said. According to the AEMO, a large chunk of the Eastern States’ coal plants are forecast to retire in the coming decade. According to Eldridge, most of the pressure on the electricity system — including during heatwaves — came in the evening peak when the sun had set. During those times, he said coal was indispensable. “Coal still provides scale and firmness,” Mr Eldridge wrote. “It remains essential overnight and into the evening.”

wait

Both Eldridge and Mountain said batteries would — and already were to an extent — help bridge the daily gap between abundance and scarcity. On Wednesday, for example, they helped meet about 10 per cent of demand during the evening peak. Mountain, for his part, said batteries would come to dominate evening supply as their number and capacity grew and grew. He said many of the batteries would be profitable in their own right, buying cheap power in the middle of the day and selling in the evening when prices were higher.

LOL so much hedging you should be amazed they can even see the other side where the grass is greener

no shit the coal helped but that’s not what yous jokers were saying, yous were complaining that fossil burners were already shutting too quickly and then we’d need had gas still and then nothing could ever replace baseload cover

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/solar-powers-australia-through-heatwave-conditions/106211394