Hot centre, cool cover: Why Durathon works for Australia
The Durathon Battery is engineered to meet the growing need for safe and reliable energy storage. It’s a big deal in a place like Australia where traditional grid power distribution systems struggle to provide energy to our vast, rugged lands.
Durathon helps improve the efficiency of renewable energy like wind and solar. When the wind is still or the sun stops shining, Durathon provides safe power storage for locally-generated power so energy can be supplied when it is needed. It will also help existing transmission and distribution providers to manage peak demand by storing power from the grid off-peak, and redistributing it when it’s needed – making energy all round more efficient.
In remote areas like mine sites and farms Durathon can make existing power generation more efficient, while homes and businesses in urban areas can use the technology to smooth out their demand and reduce the cost of their power.
Durathon is a big deal for Australia. Here’s how the battery will have a positive impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of Australia’s power network:
Australia, all over
Australia has the world’s largest interconnected electricity grid. Maintaining good services across such massive areas is costly for transmission and distribution companies, and network costs represent anything up to 86 percent of the bill to consumers. Durathon will help to overcome capacity constraints by making it cheaper to boost performance across the network, improve supply on the periphery and reduce the cost to consumers.
Making renewables more efficient
Safe, stable and inexpensive to maintain, the Durathon will make it easier and more effective to integrate renewables into the grid, in an environmentally sustainable fashion. With over 13 per cent of Australia’s power coming from renewable sources the Durathon will help to boost this proportion in coming years by offering an innovative alternative to existing renewable power storage.
Lighting up the outback
In the most remote regions of Australia electricity supply is largely dependent on micro-grids and diesel generators, which require fuel to be shipped in at great expense. The Durathon will help to optimise these systems by storing power to cover peaks and troughs in demand, making remote electricity generation more effective and less expensive to run.
Squeezing the peak
Durathon batteries can be used by industry to store power generated during off-peak, low use periods. This stored power can kick in and supplement peak-period power needs, helping to reduce the pressure of increased power prices.
Fit to handle the hottest Aussie summer
The Durathon stores power in a molten core insulated with a ceramic shell. As a result, Durathon batteries can operate without an external cooling or heating system within an ambient temperature range of -40°C to +50°C, reducing the likelihood of damage in the extreme heat of an Australian summer -- which makes them a stable alternative for the millions of Australians in regions where summers are harsh, and bushfires common.
Sources: nsw.gov.au and theenergycollective.com