Comments on: Do we even need Snowy II? https://www.openforum.com.au/do-we-even-need-snowy-ii/ Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: Max Thomas https://www.openforum.com.au/do-we-even-need-snowy-ii/#comment-4486 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:12:20 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=12512#comment-4486 Peter Farley’s analysis fits nicely with comments by Dr Ariel Liebman, Deputy Director of the Monash Energy Materials and Systems Institute, who pointed out that decisions will have to be made on where we should build batteries, versus off-river pumped hydro storage, as well as where and how much additional transmission capacity we should build.

This requires an expansion of transmission cost-benefit assessment processes to include cross-state investment that will take place over the next 20-30 years, as we will be connecting unprecedented quantities of new wind and solar farms often far from existing grid locations. Dr Liebman went on to say that failing to take such a national approach will likely result in billions of dollars of stranded assets as different technologies unexpectedly emerge as competitive at various locations at different points in the future.

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