{"id":37910,"date":"2020-03-05T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=37910"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:24:25","slug":"transmission-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/transmission-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Build It And They Will Come: Transmission Key To 100% Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37918\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37918\" class=\"wp-image-37918 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tramsmission-lines.jpg\" alt=\"transmission lines\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tramsmission-lines.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tramsmission-lines-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tramsmission-lines-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tramsmission-lines-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ANU&#8217;s Professor Andrew Blakers says we need to build out transmission lines urgently.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you wanted to block the expansion of renewable energy, a good place to start is to put bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of new, long distance electricity transmission infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing his participation in last week\u2019s 100% renewable energy workshop at ANU, the university&#8217;s Professor Andrew Blakers told SolarQuotes transmission is the biggest short-term problem facing renewables in Australia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Getting power from eastern Australia\u2019s most favourable solar energy zones is neither difficult nor expensive, he said, but:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cthere\u2019s effectively been a strike by the federal government on new transmission\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201carchaic\u201d approval process for new transmission is geared to the timelines for developing a new coal power station, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA coal power station takes five-to-ten years to construct, and the [approval] process goes along that timeline.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wind and solar power developments, on the other hand, can get up and running in one or two years.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of renewable energy zones from the approval process ties approval to the old paradigm, where new transmission is approved according to demonstrated demand. For renewable energy zones, he said, proof of demand should be waived because solar, wind, and pumped hydro facilities will be \u201crapidly saturated\u201d in today\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>Blakers was talking to SolarQuotes about two presentations he participated in at the workshop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>his \u201c100% renewables = 85% emissions reductions\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/qajm9vynno0dydp\/AADzO1LzEu7sn-g_KCN54Iiua?dl=0&amp;preview=2b+Andrew+Blakers.pdf\">here<\/a> (PDF),<\/li>\n<li>and as a co-author of Anna Nadolny et al\u2019s \u201c100% renewable transport via EVs, (PowerPoint) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/qajm9vynno0dydp\/AADzO1LzEu7sn-g_KCN54Iiua?dl=0&amp;preview=2f+Anna+Nadolny.pptx\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his 100% renewables paper, Blakers wrote that integration &#8211; the transmission infrastructure &#8211; is the bottleneck preventing Australia from hitting 50% renewable electricity by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bottleneck we need to get rid of fast, because reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/scientists-emissions-letter-mb1391\/\">net-zero emissions by 2050<\/a> requires the \u201cdeep electrification of nearly everything\u201d &#8211; electricity generation, land transport, heating\/cooling, and heavy industry.<\/p>\n<h2>The Plan<\/h2>\n<p>Dividing the time between now and 2050 into ten-year chunks, Blakers said the tasks in front of us look a bit like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First ten years:<\/strong> Generation should reach 70-80% renewable (hence the importance of sorting out transmission as soon as possible); land transport should reach 50% electrification; and low-temperature heating and cooling (anything below 100\u2103) should using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/hot-water\/heat-pump\/\">heat pumps<\/a> to reach 100% electrification, to push gas out of household and commercial markets.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Blakers told us this delivers 25% emission reduction by 2030, while electricity consumption will rise by 50%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second ten years:<\/strong> \u201cThe task for the 2030s is to push all oil out of land transport,\u201d he said, and \u201call heating goes 100% renewables, and electricity is 100% renewable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This will lead to a doubling of electricity consumption compared to today, delivering a 75% reduction in emissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third ten years:<\/strong> \u201cThe task for the 2040s is to eliminate carbon emissions from aviation and shipping, and from industrial processes like iron, steel, cement, and the like. Getting there will triple electricity consumption over today\u2019s levels, and get the world to 85% emissions reduction. To take care of the other 15%, agriculture will \u201chopefully \u2026 get its act together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To-do items kept for the last ten years include some of the toughest challenges, such as replacing aviation fuel with synthetics created using renewables, and using hydrogen on a large scale for high-temperature heating &#8211; but we\u2019ve got more than twenty years to put R&amp;D into those issues.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing how to reach the destination is not a reason not to start, Blakers warned: the media line that we shouldn\u2019t start until all the problems are solved is nothing more than a denialist\u2019s delay tactic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have enough to get on with now\u201d, he told us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One hopeful sign is key states are starting to work around the Federal Government\u2019s inaction on transmission infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Victorian government seems to have gotten tired of the slowness and is planning to bypass the NEM transmission rules,\u201d Blakers said, adding that \u201cevery other state government needs to do the same\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said each state needs to nominate two or three renewable energy zones, and build multi-gigawatt transmission to those zones.<\/p>\n<p>There are two NSW electorates which would be ideal homes for renewable energy zones: Calare (MP: Andrew Gee, National Party), and Hume (MP: Angus Taylor, Liberal Party).<\/p>\n<p>Both are ideal for wind and solar power and pumped hydro storage, and both have good transmission corridors (for example, the Mount Piper coal power station is within Calare and has existing transmission links).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about tens of billions that could come into those electorates,\u201d Blakers told us. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable that the local federal and state members aren\u2019t all over this\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Blakers said the other hopeful sign is there\u2019s \u201cnothing to invent\u201d to switch the energy grid to 100% renewables:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cbatteries can get better, but it\u2019s all there &#8211; wind, solar, pumped hydro, batteries, and demand management\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That led to discussion of the Anna Nadolny paper, because Professor Blakers said EVs represent the most important new load in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<h2>EVs: The Perfect Interruptible Load<\/h2>\n<p>While EVs add about 35% to electricity generation requirements, they are \u201ca wonderful demand management tool\u201d. Vehicles are stationary most of their lives, and EVs can be plugged into the grid when they\u2019re not moving, so \u201cthe utility can choose when to add electrons\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful interruptible demand, just like hot water, but it will be much bigger,\u201d Blakers added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, of course, when to draw down on that storage, because so few drivers need the full battery range to be available at any given moment. You only need enough to get you to the next period the car will be plugged in.<\/p>\n<p>The typical commuter will get home and plug the car in at 7pm, and no matter what happens in the next twelve hours, the car will probably be at 100% charge in time for the morning commute.<\/p>\n<p>As with solar, wind, batteries and pumped hydro, there\u2019s pretty much nothing to invent to make use of EV batteries this way. \u201cAdaptive charging\u201d sounds impressive, but Blakers said it means simply that there\u2019s a low-tech controller so that the utility avoids charging the EV battery when the grid is under stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to block the expansion of renewable energy, a good place to start is to put bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of new, long distance electricity transmission infrastructure. 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