Can You Run a Grid on 100% Wind + Solar? South Australia Shows Us How
Welcome to South Australia, a place where the winds of change are quite literal and the sun doesn’t just warm our homes but also powers them. I recorded this video in beautiful Adelaide when I visited recently, because South Australia is leading the world in several key aspects of the energy transition. South Australia has gone from a coal powered electricity grid with virtually no renewables in 2008 to 70% renewables with zero coal power plants today, a mere 15 years later. And, they’ve done it the hard way, with none of the “easy” clean energy sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear). They’ve done it with variable renewables wind and solar.