
How much storage is needed for 100% renewables?
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
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How Much Storage Do You Need?
I think the truth to say is that you can get actually really, really close to 100% renewables, not that much storage. So if we were to go 100%, I mean, how much extra storage would we need? Do we need another couple of snowy hydro's? Or do we just not worry about it for the last one or two percent because we've kind of done most of the hard yards? Yeah, well, I mentioned in the article that to get through that rough patch in winter, we needed a bit over 800 gigawatt hours of storage. But we needed about 6.5 gigawatts of storage generation capacity. So that's over three times snowy 2.0.
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