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Nobody can have escaped the trials and tribulations of the Australian electricity situation in the last months and even years. And you are probably aware of Elon Musk’s 100-days-to-install-or-it’s-free promise for the world’s largest battery ordered for South Australia last week (97 days to go?). For a country of abundant resources it seems that there’s a problem of planning when things go so badly wrong as they did in the South Australian blackout last year.
So, if you want some background reading, ISCAST Fellow Ian Hore-Lacy has published a commentary on the recent Finkel Review of the National Electricity Market. Ian’s commentary is here.