THE Clean Energy Council has touted batteries as the solution to Australia’s increasingly ‘peaky’ electricity system, saying they are cheaper to run than open-cycle gas turbine plants.
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The CEC's report ‘Battery Storage - The New, Clean Peaker' compares a 250 megawatt gas peaker plant with a four-hour grid-scale battery, finding that batteries provide cost savings of more than
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