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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 renewable projects, we’re well ahead of the 2020 Integrated System Plan’s ‘step change’ scenario which would see more than 90 per cent renewable penetration, including rooftop solar PV, by 2040,” he said.
29 April 2021
Four new large scale solar farms joined Australia’s main grid in the first quarter of 2021, but there is still no sign of generation from the country’s biggest wind project, the heavily delayed 530MW Stockyard Hill wind farm.
According to the Australian Energy Market Operator, the four new solar farms that joined the National Electricity Market in the March quarter were the Glenrowan West (110 MW), Cohuna (27MW), and Winton (85MW) solar farms all in Victoria and the 30MW Corowa solar farm in NSW.
That helped lift average grid-scale solar output to a record quarterly high of 1,070MW, beating the previous record set in the December quarter by 48MW.
28 April 2021
The ongoing expansion of wind and solar power in Australia’s main grid has delivered stunning price falls in the latest quarter, along with big falls in demand and further reductions in emissions. The absence of any major outages in the summer season meant that the grid was cheaper, cleaner and more reliable.
The latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report from the Australian Energy Market Operator lists a series of major new milestones, both in the share and reach of wind and solar, but also in the setting of new lows for minimum demand and record low output for black coal generators.