Katja Kretschmer. Photo by Shane Lo.
“The issue is that solar energy is only produced during the day, and wind energy only on windy days. It’s not always in sync with consumers’ demands of electricity and unused energy has nowhere to go.”
That, says Katja Kretschmer, “is where my batteries would jump in”.
Kretschmer, an Industry Doctoral candidate with the Automotive Australia Cooperative Research Centre (AutoCRC) in UTS’s Centre for Clean Energy Technology, explains: “The problem, at the moment, with those energy sources is that we can’t store them efficiently and economically. The batteries I’m developing would store energy as it’s produced at a wind or solar farm and release that energy into the power grid as it’s needed.”
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