Gas industry still talking garbage about big batteries, knowing they will kill its dirty cartel

The gas industry continues to spread misinformation about battery storage technology, despite knowing that it is a cleaner and cheaper alternative to fossil fuels.

The latest example of this was the CEO of APA Group presenting their half year results yesterday. It's not surprising and it's nothing new.

Battery storage systems are becoming increasingly popular and have the potential to replace gas-fired peakers, but the gas industry is trying to delay this transition (and its own demise) by spreading misinformation about their usefulness.

The truth is that batteries provide a large number of different grid services and evaluating them solely on the duration of storage they provide is to ignore many of the other benefits they offer.

Batteries are smarter and faster than gas generators, and take nowhere near as long to build. The first big battery in Australia - the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia - was built in 100 days and wasted no time in having a huge impact on the energy market here.

And battery technology continues to improve. In Australia we will need some gas in the electricity mix for many years to come, but battery storage will grow to become the primary source of energy storage in our high-renewables grid.