The future of energy generation and storage

[Smurf1976]

No but my understanding is making nuclear arms grade for weapons a spin off is fuel grade that can be used in reactors.

The first two nuclear power stations in the UK were exactly that. Military facilities with a useful and politically convenient (in an international context) by-product of generating electricity.

 

[Smurf1976]

Extremely high demand in SA today with the temperature officially reaching 43.3 degrees in the Adelaide CBD with some suburbs recording up to 44.7 degrees.

Outside the metropolitan area parts of the state on the grid recorded up to 46.0 degrees, with some off-grid small towns recording up to 48.7 degrees.

Those are all proper BOM measurements.

Unsurprisingly that resulted in high electricity demand.

Including the estimated output of behind the meter generation, that is primarily rooftop solar, demand reached 3730MW at 17:30 whilst looking only at large scale centralised generation (including wind, solar, batteries, gas, etc) demand peaked at 3358MW at 19:45

The second figure is just short of the all time record high whilst the first, including rooftop solar in the data, is an all time high.

For the chart below:
Yellow = Solar
Green = Wind
Blue = Battery
Orange = Gas
Red = Diesel
Purple = from Victoria