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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 University Hospital (which had to rely on backup generators) and traffic lights. “About 360 traffic ...

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 in face to face, is to officially declare that the large scale renewable energy target or 33,000 giga...

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 do not yet qualify as committed projects, they are “very likely” to proceed, improving the outl...

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 its current total installed capacity. “Based on the pipeline of registered and commissioned renewabl...

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 power generation to ensure reliability in the power grid. Alex Wonhas, the chief system designer at the ...