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25 May 2021
The Australian Energy Market Operator has underlined the need for a rapid upgrade to the country’s grid and market systems, saying that Australia is hurtling towards 100 per cent renewables at a rate even faster than it contemplated.
AEMO chief systems design office Alex Wonhas says the country’s main grid is rapidly approaching 100 per cent instantaneous renewable penetration, and it needs to build a system and market that can handle such situations now, not in a few decades.
“Australia is experiencing the fastest and technically most challenging energy transition globally,” Wonhas told an energy conference in Melbourne. “We need to build a system and market now, not in a few decades, that can operate at close to 100% instantaneous renewable energy.