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26 May 2021 Yesterday, a fire at the Queensland Callide C coal plant caused the facility to suddenly snap offline. That triggered a cascade of flow-on events, including the disconnection of multiple transmission lines, and other generators, along with a huge ‘frequency excursion‘, in which the normal operating state of the grid begins to stray outside safe parameters. Nearly half a million customers were disconnected, including Brisbane airport, sewage pumps in the Gold Coast, Gold Coast Un...

12 May 2021 Australia officially met its 2020 renewable energy target in late January, passing the revised target of 33,000GWh – despite long delays in several major projects. Clean Energy Regulator’s Mark Williamson said the country fell a “fraction short” of the target in 2020, when some 32,300GWh of “new renewables” was produced, and the 33,000GWh target was passed on a “rolling 12 months basis” by the end of January. “The first thing I can do, and it’s great to do this i...

Power reliability at risk by 2030 after Yallourn closes May 10, 2021 – 1.58pm Share The pending early closure of the Yallourn power station in 2028 has triggered a warning from the operator of the country’s electricity market of an increased likelihood of blackouts in Victoria and South Australia late this decade unless new on-demand generators are built. However, the Australian Energy Market Operator noted that new projects have already been announced and voiced optimism that although they...

10 May 2021 The Australian Energy Market Operator says the rate of wind and solar additions on the country’s main grid, and the huge and growing pipeline, means it is “well ahead” of its most optimistic renewable transition scenario of 90 per cent renewable energy penetration by 2040. AEMO chief systems design officer Dr Alex Wonhas said in a statement on Monday that a further 300 generation and storage projects, totalling 55,000MW, were currently proposed across the NEM, nearly double it...

Loading The federal government abandoned its National Energy Guarantee policy in 2018, which was designed to co-ordinate the rise of renewable energy with dispatchable energy from batteries and gas peaking plants that can be deployed to immediately fill gaps when solar and wind power isn’t available. Since then NSW and Victoria have announced ambitious plans to reduce emissions and grow renewable energy, with some analysts warning not enough is being done to ensure growth in dispatchable powe...

Normal text size Very large text size It’s only a little over three years ago that Elon Musk boasted he could help South Australia solve a looming energy crisis by installing a big battery in less than 100 days for under $100 million. At the time the plan was met with scepticism by some, outright derision by others. Then-treasurer Scott Morrison compared the proposal with the Big Banana: “I mean, honestly, by all means have the world’s biggest battery, have the world’s bigge...