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WTF ? A ‘competition allowance’ to boost profits? That, that in a nutshell is the very reason why energy markets SHOULD NOT be in private hands. Electric energy (especially in view of sorely needed electrification efforts) should be seen as a BASIC societal need that ought to be totally in PUBLIC hands.
#AEMO
Once the bedrock of opposition to 100% renewables, “baseload” is now obsolete. AEMO—the Australian Energy Market Operator—says there’s no going back. The grid’s shifting to renewables, batteries & flexible demand. Coal gone by 2035, gas fading. #AEMO #AusPol #EnergyTransition #Solar #Wind #BESS #LFP
“There is no going back:” AEMO...
First up: Not saying that this contributed to the widespread electricity outage in Spain and Portugal.
And I know that AEMO will be watching the post event reviews very carefully.
But it was identified in the 2020 Renewable Integration Study that there was the possibility of mass disconnection of low voltage distributed (ie rooftop) solar in response to a low voltage event. And that was of particular concern in South Australia and West Australia.
And as a result since 2020 it is a requirement in South Australia (at least, haven't looked to see how widespread) that inverters be able to pass a short duration undervoltage test.
#renewableenergy #solar #electricity #australia #aemo
(I've heard that AEMO are aiming to have the capability of achieving dispatch of 100% renewable electricity by this year. The current peak renewable dispatch of ~70% in 2024 had availability of renewables equivalent to more than 100% of demand, but AEMO couldn't bring it onto the NEM at that time)
30 years of policy failure has led to #aemo, which is so complicated that nobody understands how it works #renewableenergy #netzero
I'm confused. The Amber App dashboard says Victoria is currently at 95% #renewables in the grid (the highest I've seen) but the #AEMO dashboard for current #Victorian fuel mix says there is a ton of coal...
What gives, #Amber? Which is correct?
“For the seventh year in a row, #renewables have the lowest cost range of any new electricity generation”.
#energy #wind #solar #FossilFuels #nuclear
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/GenCost
Coal plants can't be more responsive and efficient, so let's cut off solar so they don't have to update their practices and infrastructure...
There's so many more obvious and better solutions here, if we're going to try and keep a centralised grid on the east coast.
A lot of this is adaptation. Rather than seeing energy as something that should be available when we want it - we should adapt our usage patterns to track the solar cycle - timing our activities to reflect solar abundance. How?
* Make electricity tariffs bottom out at nominal cost during peak solar output times (say $0.02c/kwh for 3 hours either side of solar noon), to encourage load shifting from evening peak demand to daytime. Residential appliances like laundry, water heating etc. can all be shifted with simple timers, and it could be mandated for all new products to have proper clock timers so they can be set to run at this time, regardless of wither or not someone has a smart meter.
* Mandate installation of car chargers for staff at workplaces, and make energy to these chargers nominal cost. This will both encourage people to shift to EVs (this needs careful management to ensure we don't get fleets of oversized electro-landships) and will directly reduce fossil fuel demand and pollution by swapping that energy need to solar.
Also, we can do some degree of supply shift by modifying inter-state agreed building codes to mandate modest solar and battery storage in all new builds, and retro-fits to social housing, as well as provide grants or interest-free loans to low income households to buy and install the same. Home solar and storage has the greatest individual benefit to low-income people, yet they are the ones least likely to have it in their homes. Once they have this, they will benefit the most and will be the most fervent users of demand shifting and adaptation to make the most of their installation. The trick is, I strongly believe, to ensure we keep batteries *small* so that they only cover things like lighting, refrigeration etc. that cannot be demand shifted. The emphasis should always be on following the natural supply, as this requires far less resource consumption, far less build out, far less waste, far less lifecycle pollution, and far less cost.
I favour making power off peak or free during the day to encourage load shifting to the peak solar production times. A quick change and it reflects supply and demand better.
No matter what happens in the next QLD election, the ≈900MW MacIntyre wind farm is starting to send power to the grid.
Looks like the generators are taking the piss again today, unnecessarily pushing up power prices to serve their profits.
Power-hungry data centres scrambling to find enough electricity to meet demand
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/data-centre-electricity-grid-demand/104140808
#ycombinator #datacentres #electricity_grid #aemo #electricity_market #next_dc #artificial_intelligence
Update: I earned quite a bit. Yikes. How many houses were exporting to the grid during that event I wonder??
#AmberElectricity #Australia #DinosaurWeather #gridexports #AEMO #WeatherEvent
Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-21/nuclear-energy-most-expensive-csiro-gencost-report-draft/103253678
#ycombinator #CSIRO #GenCost #Nuclear_Energy #Renewable_energy #Wind_power #Pumped_Hydro #Energy_transition #AEMO
Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-21/nuclear-energy-most-expensive-csiro-gencost-report-draft/103253678
#ycombinator #CSIRO #GenCost #Nuclear_Energy #Renewable_energy #Wind_power #Pumped_Hydro #Energy_transition #AEMO
The Australian Energy Regulator and the Australian Energy Market Commission need to get their shit together.
“Queensland’s Ergon and Energex already have 850 megawatts of controlled demand in both hot water and air-conditioning systems.
“The state has a huge head start on the demand flexibility needed to optimise variable renewable energy generation and consumption, yet #EnergyQueensland has recently implemented rooftop solar cutoffs for systems over 10kVA meaning they can switch off these systems when requested by the Australian Energy Market Operator (#AEMO).”
#AER #Auspol #QldPol #Renewables #Solar #Batteries #ClimateEmergency
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