A deep-storage battery being trialled in Kununurra in the Kimberley region of Western Australia could solve the clean energy challenge for some of the nation's most remote communities.
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00:00It's a great day, and this is new technology which is going to help the transition away
00:05from fossil fuels.
00:07Look I think any stability in this system is a good thing, but it's also being able
00:11to use that renewable energy we have, whether it's hydro, whether it's solar, whether
00:15it's wind, we need to be able to store that energy somehow to dispatch it when it's
00:20needed most.
00:21So we know that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, so batteries
00:26are the answer in terms of capturing that energy when it's available and then dispatching
00:30it when it's really needed, and that tends to be after 6pm at night when everyone comes
00:36home and turns their home appliances on.
00:38This is a vanadium flow battery, it's the first for Horizon Power, it's a 40 year old
00:44technology invented in Australia at the University of New South Wales.
00:49This type of battery has been grid connected for 20 years, and it's now really coming
00:54to its own with the energy transition because we're looking at longer duration batteries
00:58to enable renewable energy like solar to be shifted from day to evening.