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Post by eclipse on Sept 14, 2012 13:17:08 GMT 9.5
AEMO to report on 100% renewable supply scenarios On 10 July 2011, the Australian Government announced its plan for a Clean Energy Future. As part of this plan, the government has asked the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to expand its planning scenarios to prepare for greater use of renewable energy in the longer term. This will include further consideration of energy market and transmission planning implications of moving towards 100 per cent renewable energy www.climatechange.gov.au/en/government/initiatives/aemo-100-per-cent-renewables.aspx |
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Post by QuarkingMad on Sept 14, 2012 14:03:07 GMT 9.5
This is a good thing. There is input on the assumptions AEMO will make, discussion after the draft is released, and they are the operator who has the most experience with a broad scope of generating products. Look no further than their assessments thus far on their website. Also they will be leaning on the ATEA study that the Dept. of Resources, Energy, and Tourism conducted. I see this as a litmus test for the 100% renewables option from a body that isn't biased by their agenda*. *Assuming the assumptions and modelling check out, which I'm confident they will. |
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Post by eclipse on Sept 14, 2012 19:55:28 GMT 9.5
Wow, a political entity that doesn't give way to the PC group-think of the age? Can it be true? I hope you are right Quarking Mad, because I'm pretty fed up with the PC pro-unreliables group-think in my neck of the woods.
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Post by LancedDendrite on Sept 15, 2012 12:02:48 GMT 9.5
AEMO is going to do a really thorough job of the report, much more thorough than Below Zero Credibility (Beyond Zero Emissions) and other vested-interest groups.
I suspect the interesting costs are going to be for transmission and related support infrastructure costs for renewables, as well as market structure changes that may be required.
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Post by QuarkingMad on Sept 17, 2012 22:52:02 GMT 9.5
Wow, a political entity that doesn't give way to the PC group-think of the age? Can it be true? I hope you are right Quarking Mad, because I'm pretty fed up with the PC pro-unreliables group-think in my neck of the woods. AEMO know the market and can use the modelling BREE, EPRI, and ACIL did with the ATEA report, something the ideological* pro-renewable groupies tend not to get. Probably to do with having access to more funding and better market and energy professionals. Plus the modelling and data are coming from Minister Ferguson's ministry (Resources and Energy) and presented by the Climate Change ministry. Minister Ferguson is a very pragmatic minister. [aside] Such as that Repower Port Augusta plan noting volatile gas prices (ignoring long term contracts) and forgetting that wind has a habit of dumping on the pool price (that the solar needs to be $220-250/MWh) when all the installed wind churns out more than the modelled power. You can't call one volatile and the other acceptable. Regardless domestic gas in WA isn't that volatile being exposed to the LNG market, sure it went up but not exposed to the same speculation and geopolitics as Oil. Long term contracts are a nice thing to have for a generator. [/aside]
*Ideological in the sense that they can't see past their own beliefs in renewables, rather than myself where I'm pro-renewable but understand it's limits i.e. 100% renewable is fantasy land. |
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Post by Graham Palmer on Nov 16, 2012 19:54:59 GMT 9.5
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