{"id":22926,"date":"2018-07-20T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:41:53","slug":"victoria-electricity-summer-mb0675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-electricity-summer-mb0675\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria&#8217;s Electricity Distributors On Notice For Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22928\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/victoria-heatwave-electricity.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria's electricity distributors and summer\" width=\"700\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/victoria-heatwave-electricity.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/victoria-heatwave-electricity-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/sunset-evening-romantic-sun-2180346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexas_Fotos<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new report has again confirmed that Victoria&#8217;s Australia Day long weekend blackouts had nothing to do with renewables or a lack of energy supply, and has made recommendations to avoid a re-occurrence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On 28 and 29 January 2018, Victoria experienced widespread electricity outages that resulted in a total of 94,712 customers losing power for varying durations. The situation was potentially life-threatening &#8211; 1,218 customers affected had life support equipment at their premises.<\/p>\n<p>The events saw some quick to blame renewable energy and the loss of the coal-fired clunker Hazelwood Power station, but neither was the culprit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22929\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22929\" class=\"wp-image-22929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/heatwave-renewable-energy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Renewable energy not the culprit \" width=\"700\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/heatwave-renewable-energy-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/heatwave-renewable-energy-2-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During Victoria&#8217;s January heatwave, this didn&#8217;t happen &#8211; Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/wind-turbine-wind-energy-wind-416510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">marc-hatot<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The outages were due to a failure of the network to meet high demand (reaching around 9,100 megawatts at one point) as Victorians sought to cool their homes and businesses during the heatwave, during which temperatures in Melbourne on the Sunday reached just shy of 38C, rising to the 40&#8217;s in many regional areas.<\/p>\n<p>While Victoria had access to reserve capacity at all times, outages were mostly caused by overloaded fuses in residential areas, a cable failure in the Bellarine Peninsula and a substation fault at Anglesea.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Minister for Energy Lily D\u2019Ambrosio yesterday released the State Government&#8217;s review of the event that contains 15 recommendations to prevent similar occurrences from happening in the future; recommendations that electricity distribution businesses in the state have committed to implementing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDistribution businesses need to plan more carefully for heatwaves and make sure their networks are more reliable and resilient before next summer,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premier.vic.gov.au\/making-victorias-power-distribution-networks-more-reliable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Minister D\u2019Ambrosio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The general themes of the recommendations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implementing demand side responses to address network constraints. Demand side response can include providing financial incentives to customers to lower or shift their electricity use at peak times.<\/li>\n<li>Increased Distribution Network Service Provider (DNSP) communications with customers before potential events and during and after outages. This will include a single website for Victorians that will provide up-to-date information.<\/li>\n<li>Increased use of smart meter data and improved demand forecasting.<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory studies and assurance audits to ensure fulfillment of customer service and entitlement obligations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With regard to smart meter data analysis and demand forecasting, this will need to take into account all impacts on demand, such as the late afternoon reduction of solar power generation production that coincides with the start of residential peak demand periods.<\/p>\n<p>The Post Event Review Report can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.vic.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0021\/328260\/Post-Event-Review-Power-Outages-28-and-29-January-2018.pdf\">downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other news out of Victoria, something that will certainly make good use of sunny days ahead is the state&#8217;s second large-scale solar farm, which has been officially opened according to <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/victorias-second-large-scale-solar-farm-opened-at-swan-hill-56613\/\">RenewEconomy<\/a>. Swan Hill Solar Farm is expected to produce 37,700 MWh in its first year of operation. 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