Posted on 05/20/2024 8:48:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Australia faces the risk of power shortages because of delays in installing transmission lines tied to wind and solar farms, the energy market operator said on Tuesday, posing a challenge to the country's energy transition plans.
In an updated outlook for the electricity market, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) said the delay in commissioning dates for EnergyConnect, a 900 km (559 miles) transmission line to connect grids across three states, as well as the mothballing and retirement of gas and diesel power generators in South Australia could impact the power grid.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
Australia's power industry is struggling to meet the government's target for 82% renewable power by 2030 from around 40% now due to challenges in expanding transmission networks to handle new renewable projects located far from demand centres.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Reuters omits the major role COAL still plays in Australia, despite the ongoing closures of coal-fired power plants. in fact, Reuters doesn’t even mention coal.
AFR below omits the fact Eraring is a ***COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT, which is now being asked to stay open longer.
21 May: AFR (Australian Financial Review): Risk of summer blackouts in NSW, Victoria rises
by Ben Potter
The updated outlook comes as the NSW government and Origin discuss keeping the firm’s Eraring (***COAL-FIRED) power station open beyond the planned 2025 closure date to as late as 2029...
AEMO will ask industrial energy users such as aluminium smelters and cement plants to tender for Interim Reliability Reserves for this summer, which are payments for powering down, to minimise the risk of blackouts for consumers in NSW and Victoria...
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/risk-of-summer-power-shortages-in-nsw-victoria-rises-20240520-p5jf35
Australia continues to export around FOUR HUNDRED MILLION TONNES OF COAL TO CHINA ETC ANNUALLY.
Australia voted for this.
The left in Australia says to blame it on the lines, not the “green” power sources.
Another country where the people are held hostage by thier government
Spoke to a power generation bloke many years ago
Coal is the BEST fuel to generate power
You dump a stack a bunch of coal beside a power generation plant.
You add more, or less, coal to the to match power draw from the Consumers
You keep an inventory of coal beside the power generation plant, because you need to absorb delivery delays from a rail line getting wiped out, the barge dock gets wiped out, an earthquarke destroys a road, anything mother nature and crumbling infrastructure throws at you
Ya' think? Seriously?
The biggest reason that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has trouble in implementing the transmission line connections
lies in the total impracticality of making such a Rube Goldberg construct work in supplying adequate and reliable
power to the masses.
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