{"id":193393,"date":"2024-07-23T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/sodium-ion-batteries-are-set-to-spark-a-renewable-energy-revolution-and-australia-must-be-ready"},"modified":"2024-07-23T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T23:31:43","slug":"sodium-ion-batteries-are-set-to-spark-a-renewable-energy-revolution-and-australia-must-be-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/sodium-ion-batteries-are-set-to-spark-a-renewable-energy-revolution-and-australia-must-be-ready","title":{"rendered":"Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution \u2014 and Australia must be ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sodium-ion-batteries-are-set-to-spark-a-renewable-energy-revolution-and-australia-must-be-ready2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenges posed by solar and wind generators are real. They are inherently variable, producing electricity only when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. To ensure reliable energy supplies, grids dominated by renewables need \u201cfirming\u201d capacity: back-up technology that can supply electricity on demand.<\/p>\n<p>Some, including the Albanese government, argue gas-fired generators are needed to fill the gap. Others, such as the Coalition, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/peter-dutton-has-promised-to-solve-our-energy-problems-but-his-nuclear-policy-still-leaves-australians-in-the-dark-232816\">say renewables<\/a> can\u2019t \u201ckeep the lights on\u201d at all and Australia should pursue nuclear energy instead.<\/p>\n<p>But a new way to firm up the world\u2019s electricity grids is fast developing: sodium-ion batteries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodmac.com\/reports\/metals-sodium-ion-update-a-make-or-break-year-for-the-battery-market-disruptor-150097670\/\">This emerging<\/a> energy storage technology could be a game-changer \u2013 enabling our grids to run on 100% renewables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenges posed by solar and wind generators are real. They are inherently variable, producing electricity only when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. To ensure reliable energy supplies, grids dominated by renewables need \u201cfirming\u201d capacity: back-up technology that can supply electricity on demand. Some, including the Albanese government, argue gas-fired generators [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}