Australia’s east-coast grid could be producing bursts of 100 per cent renewable energy in less than three years, but our electricity grid is not up to the job. | joshgordo
The Australian Energy Market Operator is predicting that by 2025 there will be enough periods where there is enough renewable energy available to meet 100 per cent of demand.
But with the system already under pressure, AEMO has grown increasingly vocal about the need to “urgently” build new transmission infrastructure, and invest in new technology, to handle the extraordinary rapid increase in intermittent energy. Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott said the decision to exclude gas and coal from the mechanism “will limit its ability to drive stability, certainty and reliability”.the government will spend up to $1.5 billion to provide “nationally targeted” power bill relief to households and small businesses.
Renewable energy expert Tristan Edis, director of analysis at Green Energy Markets, said by 2025 Australia would realistically have enough renewables capacity installed to get close to periods of 100 per cent renewables for short bursts of time. For months the Andrews government has been spruiking its plans to reboot Victoria’s State Electricity Commission, which was carved up and sold off in the 1990s, as a renewable energy company.
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