{"id":41156,"date":"2023-10-20T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/south-australian-government-announces-new-energy-plan-as-elon-musk-and-other-clean-tech-innovators-step-up-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:12:00","slug":"south-australian-government-announces-new-energy-plan-as-elon-musk-and-other-clean-tech-innovators-step-up-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/south-australian-government-announces-new-energy-plan-as-elon-musk-and-other-clean-tech-innovators-step-up-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australian government announces new energy plan as Elon Musk and other clean tech innovators step up &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elon-musk-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"elon musk\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The South Australian government has announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/ourenergyplan.sa.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new energy plan<\/a> to stabilise supply \u2014 by building a battery, going it alone, ditching reliance on the national energy market operator, and the return of state-owned power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to give the\u00a0state greater local control of its energy security, the government will incentivising local exploration for more gas supplies to feed new generation, and funding projects to make renewable energy available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to power the state when it is needed.<\/p>\n<p>The state will explore\u00a0next-generation renewable storage technology. $150 million will go\u00a0towards the project, initially with a grid-connected battery with a capacity\u00a0of 100 megawatts \u2014 the largest in Australia. Elon Musk put up his hand, via Twitter, but the government hasn\u2019t ruled anyone in or out.<span id=\"more-76732\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other\u00a0large-scale projects under consideration in South Australia include solar thermal, biomass, hydrogen energy and pumped hydro.<\/p>\n<h3>New market powers, and a plant<\/h3>\n<p>Concerned by the Australian Energy Market Operator\u2019s \u201creckless\u201d disregard for the risk of blackouts in South Australia, the state will give new powers to its energy minister to intervene in the market, Premier Jay Weatherill announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The national electricity market is not only failing South Australia, it\u2019s failing the nation, Weatherill told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>This is about our energy future, Weatherill said in announcing a new gas-powered plant. \u201cThis is classically a role for government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid636866\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/208206712?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Wind power alone doesn\u2019t provide sufficient inertia, the Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis told the media\u00a0conference, so gas will provide the stability in the interim. That plant will be within the minister\u2019s control when required, and have additional use\u00a0supporting inertia of wind-generated power.<\/p>\n<p>Koutsantonis added that existing providers had not provided the certainty the government needed, either in supply or in price.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is expected to create 650 new jobs in the state.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/76732-sa-energy-plan-australias-largest-battery-return-state-owned-power-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mandarin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StartUpSmart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StartupSmartnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/startupsmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/starting-change-podcast\/id1154324497?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Australian government has announced a new energy plan to stabilise supply \u2014 by building a battery, going it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}