{"id":17229,"date":"2017-12-01T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=17229"},"modified":"2017-12-01T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:19:28","slug":"coal-gas-fail-mb0338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/","title":{"rendered":"As Summer Sizzles, Coal And Gas Power Wilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coal-power-station.jpg\" alt=\"Coal fired power station\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat presents the greatest threat to the security of electricity supply in eastern Australia states a new report published by the Australia Institute.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3600 MW of coal and gas generation in Australia&#8217;s National Electricity Market (NEM) failed during critical demand periods in the February 2017 heatwave (around 11% ) &#8211; and the situation would have been far worse without rooftop solar.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuel generators are particularly vulnerable to extreme temperatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Coal and gas generators rely on cooling systems that make them significantly less efficient in hot weather, and increase the risk of breakdowns,&#8221; states the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the February event, fossil-fuel based power stations failed in three states &#8211; New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland &#8211; and most of these failures were heat related.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was particularly severe in New South Wales, where 20% of coal and gas generation (2,438 MW) failed on February 10 during the peak demand period.<\/p>\n<p>Even in instances where heat wasn&#8217;t the culprit, the sudden loss of capacity had a major impact given electricity demand at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Among the NSW generators affected was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/liddell-power-station-mb0197\/\">Liddell Power Station<\/a>, where two of the coal-fired clunker&#8217;s four units were unavailable due to recurring issues with boiler tube leaks. Liddell Power Station is scheduled to be closed in 2022, but the Federal Government wants to keep it on life-support for another 5 years past that.<\/p>\n<p>A recently released UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) report states shuttering Liddell Power Station on schedule and replacing it with a \u201cclean energy package\u201d would not only slash emissions, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/liddell-clean-power-mb0312\/\">save more than $1.3 billion<\/a> and improve energy security.<\/p>\n<p>Things could have been far worse in February. The Australia Institute report says in each instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\"> rooftop solar power<\/a> significantly reduced underlying demand and avoided far more serious and much longer electricity supply disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>The report recommends a requirement for retailers to hold forward contracts with \u201cheat safe\u201d backup such as solar PV to be included in the National Energy Guarantee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; This could include dispatchable solar thermal with storage or additional PV to reduce peak demand on hot days,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/content\/coal-and-gas-reliability-liability-heat-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say the authors<\/a>, who state this could be buttressed by with battery storage to dispatch into the evenings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report, &#8221; Can\u2019t stand the heat: The energy security risk of Australia\u2019s reliance on coal and gas generators in an era of increasing heatwaves&#8221;, can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/sites\/defualt\/files\/P454%20Can't%20stand%20the%20heat%20FINAL%202.3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloaded here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat presents the greatest threat to the security of electricity supply in eastern Australia states a new report published by the Australia Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>As Summer Sizzles, Coal And Gas Power Wilts - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Extreme heat is the greatest threat to the security of electricity supply in eastern Australia states a new report published by the Australia Institute.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"As Summer Sizzles, Coal And Gas Power Wilts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Extreme heat is the greatest threat to the security of electricity supply in eastern Australia states a new report published by the Australia Institute.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-01T03:19:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coal-power-station.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"As Summer Sizzles, Coal And Gas Power Wilts\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-01T03:19:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/\"},\"wordCount\":399,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-gas-fail-mb0338\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coal-power-station.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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That is everyone who isn't evil,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electricity Prices&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electricity Prices","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/electricity-prices\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/states-low-elec.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/states-low-elec.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/states-low-elec.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/states-low-elec.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/states-low-elec.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18415,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/south-australia-diesel-generators\/","url_meta":{"origin":17229,"position":3},"title":"South Australia&#8217;s New Diesel Generators Ready To Rumble &#8212; But Probably Won&#8217;t","author":"Ronald Brakels","date":"February 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In order to improve the probability of South Australia making it through the summer without one or more blackouts, the state government has leased, with an eye to buy, 9 mobile General Electric TM2500 turbine generators.\u00a0 According to their brochure they are able to supply a total of 309 megawatts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Policy","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-policy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Diesel generator","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tm2500r2r.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tm2500r2r.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tm2500r2r.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tm2500r2r.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tm2500r2r.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10223,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-energy-crisis-myth-peddled-liars\/","url_meta":{"origin":17229,"position":4},"title":"The &#8216;SA Energy Crisis&#8217; Is A Myth Peddled By Liars","author":"Ronald Brakels","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"At the start\u00a0of the\u00a0month I wrote that South Australia's grid was in disarray. \u00a0I warned that more\u00a0blackouts were inevitable as soon as summer rolled around again or adverse weather struck. 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