Almost a dozen solar farms in western Victoria and NSW have had output deliberately cut or start dates delayed because of poor grid capacity.
In addition, as many as six other projects in Victoria or southern NSW have been told by AEMO to wait nine months or more before they can be connected to the grid, an industry executive said. A senior official at a separate investment group confirmed similar numbers of delays. "This is an emerging phenomenon that has not been seen at scale in other developed power systems around the world," he said, adding that the issues were the result of the heavy concentration of new renewable energy plants "in an area that is weakly connected to the ‘backbone’ of the grid".
Industry groups have warned that Australia is losing its appeal as investment site for large-scale wind and solar, in part because of policy uncertainty. New investment in such plants dived 56 per cent last year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported. "However, we are committed to working collarboratively and transparently to address and deliver short, medium- and long-term solutions to these Australian-first challenges," he said. He added that the west Murray region also had some 1200 MW of committed inverter-based generation projects awaiting commission with about 3000MW in the application phase.
"We’ll continue to push for transmission network upgrades and priorities like VNI West which will help open up our projects in the north west and provide a vital energy highway between Victoria and New South Wales," she said.
p_hannam So can someone actually tell me what is required and how much it costs to get all the available output into the system. I’m a skeptic but surely if half of it’s been held back then we have to ask why? I don’t want an ideological answer thanks.
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p_hannam Grrr so wrong
p_hannam Solar industry a taxpayer funded scam driven by globalist media.
p_hannam So WHO pays for the grid capacity? The solar farms, or US When you build a coal fired plant, grid connection part of calculation..? Why NOT solar Solar ONLY performs during day, when sun shines... why NO BIG battery with them?
p_hannam The cost of 20yrs denialism by lnp is carried by investors in Australia's future. How bad is that. auspol mkr ausdef abcnews
p_hannam TRANSMISSION!!!!!!!!! We need to move our grid into the 21st century
p_hannam Governments are determined to make solar a failure so coal will still be king, it's so obvious. They are splitting the public opinion to get the outcome they want....'solar bad, coal good'. This is all misinformation spreading. And let's not talk about wind evil farms.
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p_hannam What a shame/sham deliberate or naive lack of planning by Governments, opportunity lost.
p_hannam Green actions have Consequences The solar panel toxic waste problem
p_hannam Hah!
p_hannam Solar power is a crap form of energy because the maximum output is produced when it is least needed.
p_hannam LNP gov is deliberately trying to sabotage renewable First with grid capacity 2nd with investment confusion so international investors r doubtful They want to keep us ADDICTED to coal
p_hannam What’s the Government doing about it?!
p_hannam Intermittent crap destabilizes a constant power supply, we have know for years that surge protection saves electrical equipment why would we want surges occurring all day throwing electrical equipment into chaos and eventually failure ... too many fools think this is the future
p_hannam So there are technological improvements that need to be made. That could make them far more efficient Its not the end just the beginning
p_hannam Coalition. But we could add coal fired because it's different.
p_hannam This is a joke ....
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