#Australia is building the biggest virtual power plant on Earth — connecting hundreds of thousands of home #batteries and rooftop #solar systems into a single coordinated grid asset worth gigawatts of clean dispatchable power. #ActOnClimate #Renewables
June 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
#Australia is building the biggest virtual power plant on Earth — connecting hundreds of thousands of home #batteries and rooftop #solar systems into a single coordinated grid asset worth gigawatts of clean dispatchable power. #ActOnClimate #Renewables
When the former Government ran the energy system, 4 gigawatts (a lot) of reliable, dispatchable energy left the grid
Since we came to office, 4 gigawatts of reliable, dispatchable energy has come online
Let’s keep going 🔥
Since we came to office, 4 gigawatts of reliable, dispatchable energy has come online
Let’s keep going 🔥
February 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
When the former Government ran the energy system, 4 gigawatts (a lot) of reliable, dispatchable energy left the grid
Since we came to office, 4 gigawatts of reliable, dispatchable energy has come online
Let’s keep going 🔥
Since we came to office, 4 gigawatts of reliable, dispatchable energy has come online
Let’s keep going 🔥
“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity,” said Rangelova. “This is a game-changer for countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources.”
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity,” said Rangelova. “This is a game-changer for countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources.”
Battery is such a game-changer, and nowhere is that more obvious than in California:
2019: daytime solar☀️
2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️
2019: daytime solar☀️
2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️
March 25, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Battery is such a game-changer, and nowhere is that more obvious than in California:
2019: daytime solar☀️
2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️
2019: daytime solar☀️
2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️
65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power
Outside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels.
www.reuters.com
March 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
Important analysis here from Ember. Compare dispatchable solar at $76/MWh (given these assumptions) to the most recent LCOE numbers from Lazard. At these price points, it's game over for thermal generation. (NB: combined cycle gas isn't particularly dispatchable)
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Important analysis here from Ember. Compare dispatchable solar at $76/MWh (given these assumptions) to the most recent LCOE numbers from Lazard. At these price points, it's game over for thermal generation. (NB: combined cycle gas isn't particularly dispatchable)
Advanced geothermal is my new favorite baseload generation option. It's zero emission, widely deployable, uses existing expertise and employment from the US oil & gas sector, has negligible technology risk, and is fully dispatchable. Tons of reasons to be optimistic on it.
February 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Advanced geothermal is my new favorite baseload generation option. It's zero emission, widely deployable, uses existing expertise and employment from the US oil & gas sector, has negligible technology risk, and is fully dispatchable. Tons of reasons to be optimistic on it.
Solar+batteries is just going to win.
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Solar+batteries is just going to win.
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
10. I could go on. But the bottom line is that just because you just learned about the difference between baseload, peaking, dispatchable and non-dispatchable resources doesn't mean that we need a new law about it. *sigh* /fin
February 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
10. I could go on. But the bottom line is that just because you just learned about the difference between baseload, peaking, dispatchable and non-dispatchable resources doesn't mean that we need a new law about it. *sigh* /fin
Origin is using its growing fleet of big batteries to chase down Snowy Hydro as the biggest supplier of dispatchable generation in the main grid
Origin chases down Snowy Hydro for control of dispatchable generation
Origin is using its growing fleet of big batteries to chase down Snowy Hydro as the biggest supplier of dispatchable generation in the main grid.
reneweconomy.com.au
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Origin is using its growing fleet of big batteries to chase down Snowy Hydro as the biggest supplier of dispatchable generation in the main grid
The argument for gas peaker plants is rapidly vanishing
In Australia, dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak has fallen by ~70%
Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
In Australia, dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak has fallen by ~70%
Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak falls by almost 70%
Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The argument for gas peaker plants is rapidly vanishing
In Australia, dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak has fallen by ~70%
Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
In Australia, dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak has fallen by ~70%
Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
.. requires new data centres to develop on-site dispatchable power generation capacity or storage - unless GHG emissions are regulated, this means more fossil fuels.
I feel dismayed - we're going backwards.
I feel dismayed - we're going backwards.
February 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
.. requires new data centres to develop on-site dispatchable power generation capacity or storage - unless GHG emissions are regulated, this means more fossil fuels.
I feel dismayed - we're going backwards.
I feel dismayed - we're going backwards.
NEW | As batteries become cheaper and more efficient, costs to store daytime solar are plummeting.
Outside China and the US, it now only costs an additional $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable nighttime energy 🔋
https://loom.ly/Hbc2VpU
Outside China and the US, it now only costs an additional $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable nighttime energy 🔋
https://loom.ly/Hbc2VpU
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
NEW | As batteries become cheaper and more efficient, costs to store daytime solar are plummeting.
Outside China and the US, it now only costs an additional $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable nighttime energy 🔋
https://loom.ly/Hbc2VpU
Outside China and the US, it now only costs an additional $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable nighttime energy 🔋
https://loom.ly/Hbc2VpU
This is my favourite graphic.
It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries.
Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar.
The solar boom is only just starting...
It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries.
Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar.
The solar boom is only just starting...
April 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
This is my favourite graphic.
It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries.
Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar.
The solar boom is only just starting...
It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries.
Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar.
The solar boom is only just starting...
We are being run by an idiotic death cult.
Building new coal and gas power plants would mean higher energy bills. Here’s how the math works.
Even after federal tax credits for clean energy development were erased, it’s still more expensive to build new “dispatchable” electric plants
coloradosun.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We are being run by an idiotic death cult.
It's as messy a phrase as 'renewable'. Granholm sort of means 'dispatchable', narrowly 'responds to set points above current generation'.
The conservative MP meant "any fossil fuel power station"
The conservative MP meant "any fossil fuel power station"
December 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM
It's as messy a phrase as 'renewable'. Granholm sort of means 'dispatchable', narrowly 'responds to set points above current generation'.
The conservative MP meant "any fossil fuel power station"
The conservative MP meant "any fossil fuel power station"
A new battery record in ERCOT! 5,970 megawatts. Beat the old one by nearly 400 megawatts. This is great for the Texas grid & for consumers. It's a fully dispatchable, flexible resource ready to go during times of scarcity. Batteries are changing the grid for the better.
April 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A new battery record in ERCOT! 5,970 megawatts. Beat the old one by nearly 400 megawatts. This is great for the Texas grid & for consumers. It's a fully dispatchable, flexible resource ready to go during times of scarcity. Batteries are changing the grid for the better.
Remember when folks argued the government was subsidizing renewable energy rather than letting the market decide? This is literally a gas plant subsidy!
www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-s...
www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-s...
Texas Senate passes bill to establish ‘dispatchable’ power credits trading program
The scheme would incentivize new gas and other “dispatchable” generation at the expense of renewables and batteries, which constitute the vast majority of recent capacity additions in ERCOT.
www.utilitydive.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remember when folks argued the government was subsidizing renewable energy rather than letting the market decide? This is literally a gas plant subsidy!
www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-s...
www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-s...
Battery costs have fallen sharply over the past two years. Steep drop in 2024 costs followed by further cost drops 2025, pushing storage within reach for dispatchable solar
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Battery costs have fallen sharply over the past two years. Steep drop in 2024 costs followed by further cost drops 2025, pushing storage within reach for dispatchable solar
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Chile and Australia are entering the next phase of solar ☀️🔋
Battery buildout is now so strong that new solar isn’t adding to the midday glut anymore, it’s being shifted into morning and evening demand.
This isn’t just more solar. This is solar becoming dispatchable. #Bettrification
Battery buildout is now so strong that new solar isn’t adding to the midday glut anymore, it’s being shifted into morning and evening demand.
This isn’t just more solar. This is solar becoming dispatchable. #Bettrification
April 29, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Chile and Australia are entering the next phase of solar ☀️🔋
Battery buildout is now so strong that new solar isn’t adding to the midday glut anymore, it’s being shifted into morning and evening demand.
This isn’t just more solar. This is solar becoming dispatchable. #Bettrification
Battery buildout is now so strong that new solar isn’t adding to the midday glut anymore, it’s being shifted into morning and evening demand.
This isn’t just more solar. This is solar becoming dispatchable. #Bettrification
'Upcoming battery technology may well finally eliminate the last disadvantage of renewable energy and turn what has been an intermittent power source into a fully dispatchable one.'
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
How to make the sun shine at night — Common Weal
Upcoming battery technology may well finally eliminate the last disadvantage of renewable energy and turn what has been an intermittent power source into a fully dispatchable one.
www.commonweal.scot
July 18, 2026 at 8:11 AM
'Upcoming battery technology may well finally eliminate the last disadvantage of renewable energy and turn what has been an intermittent power source into a fully dispatchable one.'
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
"The trend is clear: while the cost of dispatchable renewable energy systems continues to decline through innovation, the cost of fossil-based generation is expected to increase — a divergence that is likely to become even more pronounced in the coming years."
The idea that India will import expensive LNG to replace coal power is not one based in reality.
And it's because of simple economics that we know this.
Renewables are cheaper than coal. And coal is much cheaper than LNG.
Do the math.
And it's because of simple economics that we know this.
Renewables are cheaper than coal. And coal is much cheaper than LNG.
Do the math.
India's coal utilisation is set to decline as renewables increasingly meet power demand.
MORE THAN A THIRD of India’s coal assets will run below 40% utilisation by 2032. Expensive plants running above INR 3/kWh risks becoming underutilised or going idle.
https://loom.ly/YXrBeIo
MORE THAN A THIRD of India’s coal assets will run below 40% utilisation by 2032. Expensive plants running above INR 3/kWh risks becoming underutilised or going idle.
https://loom.ly/YXrBeIo
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"The trend is clear: while the cost of dispatchable renewable energy systems continues to decline through innovation, the cost of fossil-based generation is expected to increase — a divergence that is likely to become even more pronounced in the coming years."
Solar is dispatchable.
"After a 40% drop in battery equipment costs in 2024, the industry is now on track for another major fall in 2025. The economics of battery storage are unrecognizable, and the industry is still adjusting to this new reality." -Kostantsa Rangelova
"After a 40% drop in battery equipment costs in 2024, the industry is now on track for another major fall in 2025. The economics of battery storage are unrecognizable, and the industry is still adjusting to this new reality." -Kostantsa Rangelova
Battery storage hits $65/MWh – a tipping point for solar
Battery storage costs have fallen to $65/MWh, making solar plus storage economically viable for reliable, dispatchable clean power.
electrek.co
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Solar is dispatchable.
"After a 40% drop in battery equipment costs in 2024, the industry is now on track for another major fall in 2025. The economics of battery storage are unrecognizable, and the industry is still adjusting to this new reality." -Kostantsa Rangelova
"After a 40% drop in battery equipment costs in 2024, the industry is now on track for another major fall in 2025. The economics of battery storage are unrecognizable, and the industry is still adjusting to this new reality." -Kostantsa Rangelova
"you are using the word "dispatchable" incorrectly"
August 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"you are using the word "dispatchable" incorrectly"