{"id":27354,"date":"2019-01-31T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27354"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:54:36","slug":"heatwave-coal-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"40% Of Victoria&#8217;s Coal Power Out Of Action During Heatwave While Solar Soldiers On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27560\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27560\" class=\"wp-image-27560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/coal-unreliable.jpg\" alt=\"Solar energy more reliable than coal power\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/coal-unreliable.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/coal-unreliable-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/coal-unreliable-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/coal-unreliable-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar Power Proves Far More Reliable Than Coal Power During Record Breaking Heatwave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re aware, South Australia and the eastern states were hit by a short but intense heatwave last week.\u00a0 In Adelaide temperatures hit 46.6 degrees on Thursday.\u00a0 A sweaty record.\u00a0 It was almost unbearable.\u00a0 Or at least I think it was unbearable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure because I passed out at about 10 in the morning and didn&#8217;t regain consciousness until after nightfall.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But on the electricity supply side of things, despite the following facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has never been hotter<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-1' id='enref-27354-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>There have never been more South Australians<\/li>\n<li>There have never been more air conditioners, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>South Australians have never been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/South-Australia-Is-Now-The-Second-Most-Overweight-State-In-Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fatter<\/a><sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-2' id='enref-27354-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;the state did not suffer from blackouts due to a lack of power.\u00a0 Instead, around 60,000 South Australians suffered blackouts late at night due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-01-25\/sa-blackouts-related-to-heat-not-network-sapn-says\/10748884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blown fuses<\/a> in an electrical substation.\u00a0 This is not a good thing, but it&#8217;s a separate problem from there not being enough power to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p>It was Victoria that was unable to squeeze enough crackling sizzle juice through its electropipes to keep everyone&#8217;s air conditioners going.\u00a0 This was because around 40% of that state&#8217;s coal generating capacity was out of action when it was needed most.\u00a0 As a result, around 200,000 people suffered rolling blackouts on Friday because of their dependence on unreliable, aging, coal power stations.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3% of the state&#8217;s population were affected, which isn&#8217;t too bad historically speaking.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not good, but there have been far worse outages in the past.\u00a0 But given the Coalition&#8217;s love affair with coal I think it is important to be very clear it was the unreliability of coal power that resulted in the blackouts, while throughout the heatwave solar supplied power in a reliable and predictable way from just before sun up to just after sun down.\u00a0 This included when demand for electricity was at it&#8217;s highest.<\/p>\n<h2>Coal Power &#8212; And Gas &#8212; Failed The Nation<\/h2>\n<p>During the heatwave gigawatts of coal capacity were out of action when the grid was desperate for power.\u00a0 A unit at Victoria&#8217;s brown coal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loy_Yang_Power_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loy Yang A Power Station<\/a> went out of action last Tuesday afternoon due to a tube leak.\u00a0 (My father had one of those &#8212; very nasty.)\u00a0 Capacity was also down for maintenance at Victoria&#8217;s brown coal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yallourn_Power_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yallourn Power Station<\/a>.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-3' id='enref-27354-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Rather than take the effort to actually\u00a0 look up how much coal capacity was missing in action myself I&#8217;m just going to post a copy of what energy expert Simon Holmes \u00e0 Court posted on Twitter on Friday:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27484\" style=\"width: 968px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27484\" class=\"wp-image-27484 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/simon.gif\" alt=\"Simon Holmes \u00e0 Court\" width=\"958\" height=\"392\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonahac?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Simon is a pretty smart cookie but I&#8217;ve never mentioned him before because I could never work out how to put the little mark above the &#8220;a&#8221; in his name.\u00a0 (Maybe I should feel embarrassed about admitting this, but I&#8217;m at peace with the fact my intellectual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cookie<\/a> crumbled long ago.)<\/p>\n<p>The 1,850 megawatts of offline coal power in Victoria meant 40% of the state&#8217;s total coal capacity of 4,660 megawatts was down and out during a record breaking heatwave.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27488\" style=\"width: 1251px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27488\" class=\"wp-image-27488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/viccapacity.gif\" alt=\"Victoria electricity generating capacity\" width=\"1241\" height=\"537\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph showing Victoria&#8217;s current generating capacity, new capacity they have committed to building, and new capacity that has been seriously proposed .\u00a0 It does not include rooftop solar.\u00a0 Note it also doesn&#8217;t include any new coal power stations the Coalition says they want to built as they are not serious proposals.\u00a0 (Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/aemo.com.au\/Electricity\/National-Electricity-Market-NEM\/Planning-and-forecasting\/Generation-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AEMO<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Gas Didn&#8217;t Do Well Either<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to coal generation sooting itself during the heatwave, a major gas generator in NSW also piked.\u00a0 On the 17th, Wollongong&#8217;s 435 megawatt Tallawara Power Station shut down for repairs.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Reliably Provided Power During Peak Demand<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout the heatwave solar reliably provided power from sunrise to sunset.\u00a0 While solar farms are a growing source of energy, the large bulk of Australia&#8217;s solar power comes from panels on the roofs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">homes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">businesses<\/a>.\u00a0 This graph from the Australian PV institute shows how much of total electricity consumption rooftop solar provided in South Australia on Thursday:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27496\" style=\"width: 1159px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27496\" class=\"wp-image-27496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sapvoutput.gif\" alt=\"APVI solar power electricity production - January 24, 2019\" width=\"1149\" height=\"733\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total electricity consumption in South Australia during the record-breaking heatwave on Thursday the 24th of January 2019, with peak demand occurring at 4:45pm.\u00a0 (Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian PV Institute<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rooftop solar only provided a modest percentage of total electricity use. But when demand for electricity was at its highest at 4:45 in the afternoon, 10.1% of that total (334 MW)\u00a0was being supplied by rooftop solar.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, at 2:15, total demand was 0.8% lower and 16.8% (550 MW) was rooftop solar.\u00a0 This is more power than South Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-power-eliminated-south-australia-help-rooftop-solar\/\">Northern Power Station<\/a>\u00a0could produce before it closed in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/earlier.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"88\" \/>While Victoria has much less rooftop solar per person than South Australia, it still generated reliably during the period of peak demand.\u00a0 This disgusting pinkish coloured graph from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian PV institute<\/a> shows it meeting 3.5% of total consumption when peak demand occurred at 5:30 pm:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27499\" style=\"width: 1148px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27499\" class=\"wp-image-27499 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicdemand.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria solar power electricity production - 24 January 2019\" width=\"1138\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicdemand.jpg 1138w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicdemand-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicdemand-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicdemand-1024x656.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total electricity consumption in Victoria on Thursday the 24th of January 2019, with peak demand occurring at 5:30pm. (Image: Australian PV Institute)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday, when Victoria had its rolling blackouts, rooftop solar gave an even bigger contribution, supplying 8% of total demand at 11:30am.\u00a0 Peak demand was higher than the day before.\u00a0 It also occurred earlier.\u00a0 This was mostly due to temperatures falling, but the rolling blackouts also contributed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27502 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicfridemand.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria solar energy production - 25 January 2019\" width=\"1141\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicfridemand.jpg 1141w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicfridemand-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicfridemand-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vicfridemand-1024x653.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1141px) 100vw, 1141px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The New Emergency Reserve Scheme Was Used<\/h2>\n<p>Because Australia&#8217;s coal power stations are so unreliable an expensive new scheme known as Reliability And Emergency Reserve Trader or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/Electricity\/National-Electricity-Market-NEM\/Emergency-Management\/RERT-panel-expressions-of-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RERT<\/a> was created\u00a0last year to \u00a0reduce blackouts when coal power craps out.\u00a0 South Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/south-australia-diesel-generators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new diesel generators<\/a> are part of the RERT and were working during the heatwave to help keep Victoria going.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Solar Power Is More Reliable Than Coal<\/h2>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s aging coal power stations average over 30 years old, while Victoria&#8217;s remaining two brown coal generators are particularly decrepit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The massive 3,300 megawatt Loy Yang A and B are 34 years old.<\/li>\n<li>The 1,480 megawatt Yallourn Power Station has units ranging from 37 to 46 years old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ancient power stations can&#8217;t be relied upon as they are simply getting worn out.\u00a0 By it&#8217;s very nature coal power involves the risk of fires and burst pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Solar is more reliable than coal because it has no moving parts.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-4' id='enref-27354-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>4<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 While a solar farm could have a large inverter fail, because they have multiple units this is not likely to take much production offline.\u00a0 A solar farm could suffer a transmission failure, but this is true of any utility scale generation.<\/p>\n<p>Rooftop solar is distributed and produces power where it&#8217;s consumed.\u00a0 On one hand this makes it the most reliable energy source as it can still supply power even if transmission lines fail.\u00a0 On the other hand, if problems with the grid are serious enough for blackouts to occur then most rooftop solar production in blacked out areas will be lost.\u00a0 This is because most rooftop solar systems shut down when the grid is out as a safety precaution.\u00a0 Only a tiny number of households have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/hybrid-inverter-comparison\/\">hybrid inverters<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">battery systems<\/a> capable of full backup that let them to continue to use rooftop solar during a blackout.<\/p>\n<h2>Variable Does Not Mean Unreliable<\/h2>\n<p>You may be wondering why I&#8217;m saying solar power is reliable when it doesn&#8217;t work at night and clouds can drift overhead and reduce its output.\u00a0 This is because while the output of solar is variable, we can accurately predict it in advance and this makes it reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Coal power is like that friend who is always saying they will show up but often pikes and lets you down without notice.\u00a0 Solar is more like a friend who doesn&#8217;t always say they&#8217;ll be there, but when he says he will you can count on him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not willing to rock up at midnight for you, but if he says he&#8217;ll do something his word is as good as gold.\u00a0 At the very worst he&#8217;ll be a little less energetic than you expected him to be<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-5' id='enref-27354-5' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>5<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s clear or overcast it&#8217;s easy to predict what solar output will be days or even weeks ahead.\u00a0 Patchy cloud makes it difficult to predict what the output of any one solar power system will be, as more clouds may drift over one rooftop than another, but solar capacity is distributed over a wide area so it&#8217;s easy to predict what its output will be in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Solar can be relied on to have high output during heatwaves because clear skies and hot weather go together.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-6' id='enref-27354-6' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>6<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 Heatwaves also occur in summer when the days are longer.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, high temperatures reduce the output of solar power.\u00a0 A 15 degree increase in temperature from 30 degrees to 45 degrees will lower the output of a typical solar panel by around 6%.\u00a0 But this is more than offset by the lack of clouds and long days that go along with heatwaves.\u00a0 Coal and gas power also have their efficiency reduced by high temperatures.\u00a0 The effect is not large but does hurt output.\u00a0 Working out the efficiency drop is complicated as it depends on what kind of cooling is used.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-7' id='enref-27354-7' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>New Coal Power Stations May Not Be Much Better Than Current Ones<\/h2>\n<p>Australia is never going to build a new coal power station.\u00a0 Coal power is not cost competitive, it&#8217;s terrible for the environment, and horrible for people&#8217;s health.\u00a0 But if the Coalition got their ardent wish and build a new coal power station, don&#8217;t expect it to be much\u00a0more reliable than the existing clapped out coal burners.<\/p>\n<p>A study came out a few days ago called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/P604%20Suboptimal%20Supercritical%20Report%20%5BWeb%5D_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suboptimal Subcritical<\/a> that looked at Australia&#8217;s most moderncoal power plant<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/heatwave-coal-solar\/#en-27354-8' id='enref-27354-8' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(27354)'>8<\/a><\/sup>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercritical_steam_generator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supercritical<\/a> Kogan Creek Power Station in Queensland which came online in 2009.\u00a0 The study concluded that its breakdowns:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Occur often<\/li>\n<li>Are the biggest in the NEM<\/li>\n<li>Have contributed to price spikes, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Have caused frequency losses outside of the safe operating band &#8212; which means the coal power station broke down and suddenly stopped supplying power, which meant grid operators had to scramble to keep the grid stable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Coalition wants new coal capacity to be supercritical like at Kogan Creek.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think they know what supercritical means, but they want it anyway.\u00a0 This means new coal power stations will be less\u00a0reliable than solar power from day one.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese companies that are the world experts at building supercritical coal capacity &#8212; and which almost certainly would be hired to do the work &#8212; will have ironed out many of the bugs, but it&#8217;s still a risk. Even if these hypothetical new coal power stations have improved reliability, their complexity and combustible fuel means they&#8217;ll never approach the reliability of literally millions of solar power plants distributed across rooftops and fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re aware, South Australia and the eastern states were hit by a short but intense heatwave last week.\u00a0 In Adelaide temperatures hit 46.6 degrees on Thursday.\u00a0 A sweaty record.\u00a0 It was almost unbearable.\u00a0 Or at least I think it was unbearable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure because I passed out at about 10 in 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