Australian Grid resilience

[GregLocock]

Batteries could fortify the grid as Alfred lays bare vulnerability

With hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across southern Queensland and northern New South Wales without power, questions are inevitably turning to the strength of the electricity system.

www.abc.net.au

They are suggesting community hub battery sub stations. The one in the photo will keep 4000 houses going for 1 hour. Typical outages are 5 days long. So in reality 33 houses.

 

[Tomfh]

Such an ABC headline - "fortify the grid"

 

[GregLocock]

Bandaid the grid, to be honest.

There's a bit of an argument as to whether burying powerlines is a long term bad investment. As the article mentions they do it in Canberra. I must admit I always marvel how Canberra's streets have no potholes, the pavements don't trip you up, and every street is re-laid as opposed to patched.