(Today, 05:30 AM)heisenberg Wrote: we need more damsBut the coalition canned the Lake Onslow project at their first opportunity and they are putting a strangle hold on infrastructure investment in general so more hydro schemes aren't going to be seen while they're holding the purse strings.
More the point we should be using our existing hydro storage as a huge national battery to buffer increased wind and solar generation. Currently the gentailers use them as golden geese fattened by the high prices of thermal generation. We have enough dams; they are just being used poorly.