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AEMO is concerned about system strength. It does not yet agree with battery technology providers that grid forming inverters can provide all the system strength services traditionally provides by coal and gas, and synchronous condensers are hard to obtain, and expensive to boot.
if... IF... we do happen to solve this real problem:
the lack of replacement wind and solar capacity
then what are the engineering problems needing to be overcome, to adapt at least some of the large steam turbine generators as defacto synchronous condensers?
in principle at least, generators & motors are just the same in reverse, so, pending adequate upstream green electricity, supply it to these generators so that they become motors that drive the coupled steam turbines. use the existing lube & seal systems, but no boilers are needed, hence none of the coal processing & usage is required [all that can indeed then be scrapped]. take advantage of the huge rotating masses to provide the important frequency stability to the network, which for all these decades they've been doing in their historical role... just now do it "in reverse", as defacto synchronous condensers.
ofc there will be engineering matters to be observed, but even so, as a stop gap til straya finally has full green energy, why is nobody publicly canvassing this possibility?
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