Barr replaces ‘A D’ – Andrew Doman – who is heading back to Mount Gambier in South Australia.
His replacement, Barr, had been a venue host in Sydney, so when COVID-19 hit, all his work dried up. He decided to use the catastrophe to pursue his passion for radio.
“I’ve always had a passion for radio, but initially started working in editing for television, and to satisfy my passion for performing I became a trivia and karaoke host – which is basically like hosting radio, just in a pub and with even worse music,” Barr said.
“After losing all my work during COVID-19 I decided to enrol in the Diploma and then Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media (Radio) at TAFE NSW Ultimo to get qualified and go after my dream job.”
Australian Renewable Energy Agency backs vanadium flow battery project in outback SA
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The demonstration facility is set to be built at Yadlamalka, near Hawker in outback South Australia.
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Technology first discovered at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s will be coming home on an industrial scale, with Australia s Renewable Energy Agency backing construction of the country s first utility-scale vanadium flow battery in outback South Australia.
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Federal Government agency the REA has put nearly $6 million toward the utility-scale vanadium flow battery
It says the technology could play a major role in addressing Australia s need for increased heavy-duty energy storage
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Being developed by the Yadlamalka Energy Trust (YET), the A$20m ($15m) project will wire together an 8MWh VFB developed by start-up Invinity Energy Systems with a 6MW solar array, producing some 10GWh of power per year.
“[YET] is excited about being the first in Australia to construct a large scale dispatchable solar power plant. Through using breakthrough technology in the form of vanadium flow batteries, we can deliver strong, economic infrastructure benefit to South Australia and at the same time support a low carbon economy,” said Yadlamalka Energy Trust chairman Andrew Doman.
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