19 minutes on the express train city to Port Adelaide, then 10-15 minutes walking to St Vincent St.......7 to 8 minutes walk when Port Dock station opens.
Perfect..read a book or listen to music on the train, then some exercise to get that weight under control.

Unley and Surrounding Suburbs (Hyde Park, Wayville, Parkside etc) should be in one thread to keep track of projects.

A look inside the new Atura Hotel at Adelaide Airport. From Hit107. Take A Look Inside Adelaide Airport's New Atura Hotel https://cdn-hit.scadigital.io/media/54884/atura.png?preset=MainImage The 165 room Atura Hotel at Adelaide Airport has opened its doors and we've taken a look inside! The highly a...

Still confused as to what-if any useful power these large scale storage plants offer the grid. Batteries offer the grid the quickest path to stability during times of "instability". If a large power generator (this can be coal, gas, wind or solar) trips out suddenly from the grid (one mom...

More South Australian renewable energy news sourced from Renew Economy. This time an article about the 30 mw battery connected to the Wattle Point wind farm on Yorke Peninsula. This new battery can "isolate" Yorke Peninsula from the grid should a state wide blackout occur and add 30 mw of ...

Good article on the Tesla big battery at Jamestown. Details about construction costs and revenue plus a myriad of other details. From Renew Economy Revealed: True cost of Tesla big battery, and its government contract New light has been shed on one of the great mysteries of the Australian electricit...

The ABC's Australian Story are doing a program on Whyalla/Sanjeev Gupta airing Monday September 24. Should be a good watch. I wonder if they'll have anything on Adani's involvement in the solar project here in SA, while over in Queensland they are destroying fresh water sources, or if it'll be anot...

The ABC's Australian Story are doing a program on Whyalla/Sanjeev Gupta airing Monday September 24. Should be a good watch.

Solar is increasingly dominating power supply in the middle of the day. Also further emphasises the need for ( a lot) more storeage. From Renew Economy Solar takes centre stage in South Australia, becoming No 1 energy source in middle of day https://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bun...

Looks like the Aurora solar project must must be gearing up to start construcion (if this article is any guide) From In Daily SA jobs promised as solar thermal project boosts local manufacturing Global solar thermal company SolarReserve is working on a deal with local manufacturer Heliostat SA to bu...

According to the Sonnen website the expected battery life is 20 years (yes technology might move on, but the battery will still do it's job!)
And their guarantee is 10 years.

https://sonnen.com.au/sonnenbatterie/

Now I am aware that this is just another subsidy (it isn't just middle class handout, such a boring trope ) but the people buying it are still taking the risk and the ownership of the obsolete battery in x amount of years, they are perfectly in their right to use it how they chose. Its $100 million...

So the battery sudsidy is only applied to "South Australian manufactured" products? Is this the incentive (or government handout) for Sonnen to setup in Adelaide? Its a real tragedy that connection to a virtual power grid is not obligatory... this could lead to a situation where thousands ...

I just found this New York Times article about Adelaide. It was written in April this year. A few factual errors ("a mostly rural state") but still an interesting read. From NY Times ADELAIDE JOURNAL Elon Musk Likes It Here. Will Other Tech Innovators Follow? https://static01.nyt.com/image...

Sonnen look like they are about to start building their battery manufacturing plant at the Holden site in Elizabeth. From Renew Economy Sonnen to manufacture home batteries at old Holden factory in Adelaide German battery storage giant Sonnen has announced plans to manufacture up to 10,000 battery s...