{"id":34346,"date":"2019-10-24T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=34346"},"modified":"2019-10-24T09:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T23:02:58","slug":"ireland-australia-renewables-aemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ireland-australia-renewables-aemo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Irish Hints To How AEMO Might Manage Australia\u2019s Renewables Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worried that Australia’s grid will collapse with too many renewables? Ireland has shown – as long as we have a carefully ‘staged transition’ – the risks are manageable.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is trying to understand what might be what it calls the \u201cupper limits\u201d of wind and solar energy deployment into the Australian grid. In a report published this week, it has presented the first stage of its Renewable Integration Study.<\/p>\n

The report (PDF<\/a>) compared Australia\u2019s renewable integration to international markets; analyses system aspects specific to wind and solar energy (variability, frequency control, and distributed energy resource growth), and takes a good hard look in the crystal ball for the National Energy Market (NEM) over the next decade. The NEM analysis, AEMO wrote, has to take into account \u201cthe more localised limits to wind and solar PV penetration (for example, network congestion and localised system strength)\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the international stage, AEMO reckons there are some parts of Australia that lead the world in renewable deployment, but that we need to learn from overseas markets to achieve the \u201cvisibility, predictability, and controllability\u201d needed to integrate systems like rooftop solar power into the grid (as we\u2019ve\u00a0discussed previously<\/a>, energy providers like SA Power are well aware of the challenges).<\/p>\n

At the summary level, AEMO highlighted international experience in \u201cthe assessment of system ramping requirements and fleet capability\u201d, in frequency management and inertia control in high renewable scenarios.<\/p>\n

And, as our friends over at Renew Economy\u00a0highlighted<\/a>, the report also hints that AEMO is interested in which it calls a \u201cstaged approach\u201d to bringing \u201cless synchronous\u201d generation online.<\/p>\n

Most of the challenges raised by AEMO – frequency management, variability, voltage management, and DER integration – are fairly well known, so I\u2019m going to drill into what AEMO has in mind when it talks about the \u201cstaged transition\u201d.<\/p>\n

When The Transition Goes Wrong<\/h2>\n

Its international examples are:<\/p>\n