Can You Run a Grid on 100% Wind + Solar? South Australia Shows Us How

Is this a joke?

Hi Rosie, can you explain why there is such a large discrepancy in what each person in each state pays for electricity. SA being one of the more expensive, and i can't understand why TAS is so high given all their hydro. Thanks!

I think to achieve a more renewables electricity market more "islanding" needs to be built into the system. Starting with individual houses and businesses, local distribution, etc. This requires home batteries, local network batteries etc.
Who pays? Really good question.
Who wins, who loses. Equity, Equality (BS) Discussion.

The challenges include politicians appear to become less numerically capable as they move left of center and less green as they move right of center. I can't explain this and am more than happy to be proved wrong.

The interconnected (incestuous) relationship between, Electricity,(energy), Water, Transport and Tax has to be managed way better.
Just look at how they treat each other and the public.

The cost and ability to insure have to be included in all calculations!!!!!

great video!

The grid makes 2cents kWh electricity into 45cents kWh electricity to the consumer at the end of the grid.

So the grid now collects the cashflow and pays 2cents to the generators.
This is a $100sBILLIONS cashflow.
Because the grid is a $TRILLIONS infrastructure investment built over 100years.

Less consumers is less customers is less cashflow 😮😮😮😮
Or the remaining customers pay more $kWh to give the grid owners a ROI, return on investment.

People get everything confused.
The marginal cost of energy is confusing.

It is meant to encourage supply and more of the cheaper renewable electricity and battery storage.

This same economic mechanism works strongly in the favour of the highest marginal taxpayers who can save tax-free money on all their energy costs and new BEV, battery electric vehicles. V2everything technology is perfect.

Particularly for the wealthy.
With energy and vehicle budgets to invest in their private energy infrastructure and get tax-free ROI.
Particularly when the sunshines and the crops grow.

The poor will complain that renewables make their energy bills more expensive for confused reasons.

This title is so misleading. South Australia only runs occasionally on 100% renewables. We import electricity from other states as a safety net all the time. Which is the whole point - you need a backup baseload from elsewhere hahahah. And let’s not forget the fact SA power is hugely more expensive than other states, sometimes 2x more per kWh thanks to all this

Why are there interconnectors between NSW and Victoria supplying power to South Australia? Cut the interconnectors and see how you go with your solar and wind 😂

Rosie, please slow down and try to enunciate your words.

You lying clowna make me so angry

Thank you Dra

aussie is the best country to go fully solar,yes it can be done as the wind does blow and the sun does shine,we could even do another hydro if need be but technolgy is changing and we should get storage solutions

one in 3 households allready have free electricity and they have battery storage

Spain says no. Unequivocally.
1,8 million. Like everything, where it works, it works, where it politics, it destroys. But only the Bloody Peasants.

Every country can't be a net importer, and every country can't give up industry. Intermittent energy is too dangerous for a modern civilization although, I am not including hydro in that claim. Thankfully, nuclear is under discussion. Spain and Portugal suffered an enormous costly outage and will have more.

Spain hasa just demonstrated how wrong you are.

What a load of bull . Look at Spain,Portugal and France. that shows you how great renewables are.

The A.C.T. claim to be 100% renewables but they still need to be connected to those dirty coal/gas fired power stations supplying the grid for reliable power supply. How reliable would the renewables be if S.A. wasn't still connected to the national grid?

I am still skeptical of that 100% statement for long periods. i really felt sooner or later the situation like what happened in spain/portugal last week would happen. might want to do a revision of this video taking that into sonsideration.

Works really well for Spain and Portugal NOT

Lol @ this.

If you could there would be no need for interconnectors linking SA to Victoria and NSW which have reliable coal power which provides electricity 24/7/365 , at a very affordable price.
So , the answer is No.

If S.A. believe renewable can run their grid 100% why don't they de-couple from the VIC and NSW grids?

Black Outs To C ome..

If a volcano goes off and leaves an ash cloud for 6 months, we get neither solar or wind for that period. No energy at all.

Lies lies lies

Thanks Rosie and well done South Australia, keep it up. Colin UK.

"Engineering with Rosie"?? More like "Propaganda with Rosie".

China makes wind mils and solarpanels with COAL! CHINA USES COAL 2 TO 3 TIMES MORE THAN WHOLE WORLD.

Spain just answered your question. No, you can’t! Unless you don’t mind a countrywide blackout with a knock on effect to neighbouring countries.

Not true about SA 70% renewable, you use diesel powered generators when there is no wind or solar. SA state government will not be installing off shore wind turbines as well. Complete nonsense and rubbish. Also, the issues of frequency modulation to maintain at a 50Hz cycle is extremely hard and a nightmare with renewables. Batteries are not the solution, as for admitting that you use coal fired electricity from Victoria sheds a red light on the reliability on renewables.

Can you facilitate a economy that wishes to expand?

And thats why it so expensive, so the net zero zealots can play at moral olympics

What is the expected life of these big batteries?

Only fools believe the climate change scam.

Hi Rosie, is congratulate SA for the achievement of 70% and how difficult is to achieve these numbers if you don't have geother. or water; but i a have a few questions:
1.- Pointed out your achievement doesn't acknowledge that the private industry has invested a lot of bugs in the project, does any poor country in the world could achieve the same goal???
2.- has anybody make the count of invesment in dollars in this project? We request all public, private, subsidies for solar pans, batteries,etc

Your assertion that other countries are going to follow South Australia's migration to purely renewables is false.
The cost of electricity from creating and maintaining the infrastructure , coupled with the intermittent behavior of the energy source is not viable outside certain latitudes. It is estimated that those countries who are pursuing Net Zero will bankrupt themselves within 20 years.
Luckily America has woken up to this peril and is rolling back its reliance on this ridiculous ideology

One year on from your video and SA energy mix at 9am was 89% gas...Independent research shows 100% renewables won't work and costing trillions of dollars over a long term period. Renewables hwve a place in the grid but not at this scale, especially the demand for electricity will increase 7x over the next 50 years. A stable base koad is required to power industry and manufacturing.

Solar, wind, and hydroelectric as backup for when neither wind nor solar runs, would be fine to run a grid. If households and industries/offices would stop their waste, it could be run fine, without interruptions, in almost every country of the world.

Now do spain 2025 genius

why would transmission towers on minor line cause the whole state to fail.

The Reality was wind had to shut down that day because the wind blew to hard and the farms needed to protect their turbines from damage.

The interconnector saw SA as a short circuit and disconnected

End of story BLACKOUT

Electricity needs to be economical and reliable.

When your electric bills hit 50 or 65 cents per KWh, you will know the costs of solar and wind.

As for the reliability of a renewables-dominated power grid, just call the Spaniards.

Good luck with all that. 😄

ROSIE why is the taxpayer funding energy plants ( wind,solar or nuclear) to be used by private energy companies who focus is profit not cheap power to taxpayers

Load of CRAP

Clean energy has become a scam
How do we recycle the panels
Another false eco religion

Reality is like water. Beat it all you like, it always comes back.

No you CAN NOT. Spain had a total autage of 1 week. No power anywhere. Everything was shut down. No food , no banks , no cell service, no news. NOTHING.

propaganda b/s